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The following is list of beaches in the U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories. Beaches occur both on the ocean shoreline and inland on lakes, rivers, etc. This list is organized by major coastline.
The Tidewater Region is the slim section of land along the coast of North Carolina near the Atlantic ocean. All the beaches of North Carolina are located here. There are also capes, (projections of land into water) on the coast of North Carolina. Lighthouses, normally found on a cape, reduce incidents of a collision between ships and the coast.
Greenville (/ ˈ ɡ r iː n v ɪ l / GREEN-vil; locally / ˈ ɡ r iː n v əl / GREEN-vəl) is the county seat and most populous city of Pitt County, North Carolina, United States.It is the principal city of the Greenville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, and the 12th-most populous city in North Carolina.
Greenville: 13: Greenville Tobacco Warehouse Historic District: Greenville Tobacco Warehouse Historic District: July 17, 1997 : Roughly bounded by 12th, Clark, Ficklen, and Washington Sts. • Greenville, North Carolina Warehouse Historic District boundary increase (listed November 30, 1999, refnum 99001450): Eleventh St. near Clark St.
Despite the fact that North Carolina has hundreds of miles of beachfront territory, due to the Outer Banks and swampland along the coast the state lacks a good natural harbor. As such, North Carolina never developed a major port city as did neighboring states such as Georgia (Savannah), South Carolina (Charleston), and Virginia (Norfolk).
Pitt County is a county located in the Inner Banks region of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 170,243, [1] making it the 14th-most populous county in North Carolina. Its county seat is Greenville. [2] Pitt County comprises the Greenville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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The Sandhills or Carolina Sandhills is a 10-35 mi wide physiographic region within the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain province, along the updip (inland) margin of this province in the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The extent of the Carolina Sandhills is shown in maps of the ecoregions of North Carolina, South Carolina, and ...