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- Capital City:
Raleigh
Location: 35.82195 N, 078.65875 W
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- Area: 53,821 sq. mi., 28th
- Coastline: 301 mi., 7th
- Constitution: 12th
State
- County Profile: Text
List 100 Counties
- Department of: Education
- Economy:
- Agriculture: Poultry and eggs, tobacco, hogs,
milk, nursery stock, cattle, soybeans.
- Industry: Tobacco products, textile goods,
chemical products, electric equipment, machinery,
tourism.
- Flag:
That the flag of North
Carolina shall consist of a blue union, containing in the
center thereof a white star with the letter N in gilt on
the left and the letter C in gilt on the right of said
star, the circle containing the same to be one-third the
width of the union. The fly of the flag shall consist of
two equally proportioned bars; the upper bar to be red,
the lower bar to be white; that the length of the bars
horizontally shall be equal to the perpendicular length of
the union, and the total length of the flag shall be
one-third more than its width. That above the star in the
center of the union there shall be a gilt scroll in
semi-circular form, containing in black letters this
inscription "May 20th, 1775," and that below the
star there shall be a similar scroll containing in black
letters the inscription: "April 12th, 1776."
- Flower: American
Dogwood cornus florida
- Geology: Land
Area; 48,843 sq.mi., 28th
- Geographic Center: Chatham, 10 miles northwest of
Sanford
- Governor: Jim Hunt Jr. (D)
- Highest Point: Mt. Mitchell;
6,684 feet, 16th
- Highway Markers: North
Carolina
- Inland water: 3,826 sq.mi., 6th
- Largest City: Charlotte
- Learning Kingdom: Free
daily email lists.
- License Plates of North
America: North
Carolina
- Lowest Point: Atlantic coast; sea level, 3rd
- Maps: Directions
- Motto: Esse quam videri
- "To
be, rather than to seem."
- National Forest: North
Carolina
- National Park: North Carolina
- Nickname: Tar Heel State
- Origin of state's name: Taken from "Carolus," the
Latin word for Charles and named after England's King
Charles I
- Population: 7,425,183;
11th, 7/97
- Presidental Birthplace:
- James
Knox Polk, 1845-1849
- Andrew
Johnson, 1865-1869
- Representatives:
- US House:
- US Senate:
- Shoreline: 3,375 mi., 6th
- Song: The Old North State
- words
by: William
Gaston
- music
by: Mrs. E.E.
Randolph
- Statehood: November 21, 1789
- Symbols: NC
Symbols
- Topography: Image
Coastal plains and tidewater in two-fifths of state,
extending to the fall line of the rivers; piedmont
plateau, another two-fifths, of gentle to rugged hills;
southern Appalachian Mountains contain Blue Ridge and
Great Smokey Mountains.
- Tourism: Tour
North Carolina
- Travel: Hotel, Auto,
Airline Reservations
- Tree: Longleaf
Pine pinus palustris
- Unclaimed Funds: North
Carolina
- Weather: www.weather.com
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