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North Carolina ( KARR -ə-LY -nə ) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States . It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, South Carolina to the south, Georgia to the southwest, and Tennessee to the west. The state is the 28th-largest and 9th-most populous of the United States . Along with South Carolina, it makes up the Carolinas region of the East Coast . At the 2020 census , the state had a population of 10,439,388. Raleigh is the state's capital and Charlotte is its most populous city . The Charlotte metropolitan area , with an estimated population of 2,805,115 in 2023, is the most populous metropolitan area in North Carolina, the 22nd-most populous in the United States, and the largest banking center in the nation after New York City. The Research Triangle , with an estimated population of 2,368,947 in 2023, is the second-most populous combined metropolitan area in the state, 31st-most populous in the United States, and is home to the largest research park in the United States, Research Triangle Park .
The earliest evidence of human occupation in North Carolina dates back 10,000 years, found at the Hardaway Site . North Carolina was inhabited by Carolina Algonquian , Iroquoian , and Siouan speaking tribes of Native Americans prior to the arrival of Europeans. King Charles II granted eight lord proprietors a colony they named Carolina after the king and which was established in 1670 with the first permanent settlement at Charles Town (Charleston). Because of the difficulty of governing the entire colony from Charles Town, the colony was eventually divided and North Carolina was established as a royal colony in 1729 and was one of the Thirteen Colonies . The Halifax Resolves resolution adopted by North Carolina on April 12, 1776, was the first formal call for independence from Great Britain among the American Colonies during the American Revolution .
On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the United States Constitution . In the run-up to the American Civil War , North Carolina reluctantly declared its secession from the Union on May 20, 1861, becoming the tenth of eleven states to join the Confederate States of America . Following the Civil War, the state was restored to the Union on July 4, 1868. On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully piloted the world's first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft at Kitty Hawk in North Carolina's Outer Banks . North Carolina often uses the slogan "First in Flight" on state license plates to commemorate this achievement, alongside a newer alternative design bearing the slogan "First in Freedom" in reference to the Mecklenburg Declaration and Halifax Resolves. (Full article... )
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The northern cardinal is the state bird of North Carolina.
This list of birds of North Carolina includes species documented in the U.S. state of North Carolina and accepted by the North Carolina Bird Records Committee (NCBRC) of the Carolina Bird Club. As of January 2020, there are 479 species and a species pair definitively included in the official list. Thirteen additional species, one of which is identified only at the genus level, are on the list but classed as provisional. Two "non-established" species are also included here. Of the resulting 486 species, 96 are rare anywhere in the state, 91 are rare in some part of the state or in a single season, six have been introduced to North America, and four are extinct . Additional accidental species have been added from different sources.
This list is presented in the
taxonomic sequence of the
Check-list of North and Middle American Birds , 7th edition through the 62nd Supplement, published by the
American Ornithological Society (AOS). Common and scientific names are also those of the
Check-list , except that the common names of families are from the
Clements taxonomy because the AOS list does not include them. (
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Raleigh (; RAH -lee ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County . It is the second-most populous city in North Carolina , after Charlotte . Raleigh is the tenth-most populous city in the Southeast , the 41st-most populous city in the U.S., and the largest city of the Research Triangle metro area. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees, which line the streets in the heart of the city. The city covers a land area of 148.54 square miles (384.7 km2 ). The U.S. Census Bureau counted the city's population as 467,665 at the 2020 census . It is one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States. The city of Raleigh is named after Sir Walter Raleigh , who established the now-lost Roanoke Colony in present-day Dare County .
Raleigh is home to
North Carolina State University (NC State or NCSU) and is part of the
Research Triangle together with
Durham (home of
Duke University and
North Carolina Central University ) and
Chapel Hill (home of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ). The name of the Research Triangle (often shortened to "The Triangle") originated after the 1959 creation of
Research Triangle Park (RTP), located in Durham and Wake counties, among the three cities and universities. The Triangle encompasses the Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC
Combined Statistical Area , which had an estimated population of 2,368,947 in 2023. The Raleigh-Cary, NC
Metropolitan Statistical Area had an estimated population of 1,509,231 in 2023. (
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The following are images from various North Carolina-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 2 Map of the coast of
Virginia and North Carolina, drawn 1585–86 by
Theodor de Bry , based on map by
John White of the
Roanoke Colony (from
History of North Carolina )
Image 3 Map of North America by
Vesconte Maggiolo after an earlier map made on the Verrazzano expedition of 1524. The narrow isthmus of land separating "Tera Florida" from "Francesca" is the
Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Cape Fear is labeled "C. de la Forest". (from
History of North Carolina )
Image 4 Sir Walter Raleigh , sponsor of the
Roanoke Colony , and namesake of the capital city of North Carolina,
Raleigh (from
History of North Carolina )
Image 5 Reconstructed royal governor's mansion,
Tryon Palace , in
New Bern (from
History of North Carolina )
Image 6 Bennett Place , historic site of major Confederate surrender in
Durham (from
History of North Carolina )
Image 7 Commercial Airports in North Carolina (from
Transportation in North Carolina )
Image 8 Map of the roads and railroads of North Carolina, 1854 (from
History of North Carolina )
Image 9 First successful flight of the
Wright Flyer , near
Kitty Hawk , 1903 (from
History of North Carolina )
Image 11 Artists conception of
Town Creek Indian Mound during the late Town Creek-early Leak phases circa 1350 CE (from
History of North Carolina )
Image 13 Union captures
Fort Fisher , 1865 (from
History of North Carolina )
Image 14 A map showing the proposed route of the
de Soto Expedition, based on the 1997
Charles Hudson map (from
History of North Carolina )
Image 15 North Carolina is named after
King Charles I of England . Carolina is taken from the
Latin word for "Charles",
Carolus . (from
History of North Carolina )
Image 16 Ceremony of
Secotan warriors in North Carolina. Watercolour by English colonist
John White , 1585 (from
History of North Carolina )
Image 17 1st Maryland Regiment holding the line at the
Battle of Guilford Courthouse , 1781 (from
History of North Carolina )
... that Claudia Watkins , the only "lady judge" in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina , in 1969, thought it was "no big deal"?
... that the Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina , uniquely within the Council of State , has powers in both the executive and legislative branches of government?
... that despite its sizable population, Cary is classified as a town?
... that Elaine Marshall became the first woman elected to the North Carolina Council of State in its 246-year existence?
... that according to media outlet WLOS , surveillance footage appears to contradict the initial police account of the shooting of Jason Harley Kloepfer at his home in Murphy, North Carolina ?
... that George Willis Pack , a Northerner and Lincoln supporter, financed a monument to Confederate governor Zebulon Vance in Asheville, North Carolina ?
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