North Carolina
North Carolina covers 53,821 square miles and has a population of 8,049,313 people. North
Carolina's capital is
Raleigh, which
has a population of 276,093. Other important cities are
Charlotte (pop.
540,828),
Greensboro
(pop. 223,891),
Durham,
(pop. 187,035),
Winston-Salem
(pop. 185,776),
Fayetteville
(pop. 121,015),
Cary
(pop. 94,536), High Point (pop. 85,839),
Wilmington
(pop. 75,838) and
Asheville (pop.
68,889).
North Carolina was admitted to Statehood on November21st, 1789 as the 12th state. It's
bordered by
Virginia to the north,
Tennessee to the west,
Georgia to the southwest,
South Carolina to the south east
and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. The state flower is the "Dogwood" and it's
nicknames are the "Old North State" and the "Tar Heel State".
North Carolina's economy is broken into two categories; agriculture and industry.
Poultry and eggs, tobacco, hogs, milk, nursery stock, cattle and soybeans provide for the
agricultural side. While Tobacco products, textile goods, chemical products, electric
equipment, machinery and tourism
provide for the industrial side.