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According to the 2020 United States census, North Carolina is the 9th-most populous state with 10,439,388 inhabitants, but the 28th-largest by land area spanning 53,819 square miles (139,390 km 2) of land. [1] [2] North Carolina is divided into 100 counties and contains 551 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, or villages. [3]
Charlotte, largest city and metropolitan area Raleigh, second largest metropolitan area Greensboro, third largest metropolitan area Winston-Salem, fourth largest metropolitan area. The Charlotte–Concord–Gastonia MSA (as well as the Charlotte–Concord CSA) includes counties in South Carolina.
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The main article for this category is List of municipalities in North Carolina; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cities in North Carolina; See also North Carolina and categories North Carolina counties, Townships in North Carolina, Towns in North Carolina, Villages in North Carolina, Census-designated places in North Carolina, Unincorporated communities in North Carolina
Southern Living picked the 20 best cities in the South. Are you living in one right now? Which are the best cities in the South? 3 are in North Carolina, says Southern Living
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The rivers of central North Carolina rise on the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge. The two largest of these are the Catawba River and the Yadkin River, and they drain much of the Piedmont region of the state. The major rivers of Eastern North Carolina, from north to south, are: the Chowan, the Roanoke, the Tar, the Neuse and the Cape Fear.
North Carolina's port city of Wilmington, was the last Confederate port to fall to the Union, in February 1865, after the Union won the nearby Second Battle of Fort Fisher, its major defense downriver. The first Confederate soldier to be killed in the Civil War was Private Henry Wyatt from North Carolina, in the Battle of Big Bethel in June 1861.