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A view of Harris Lake from the Harris Lake County Park in Wake County, North Carolina, with the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant in view (2021)

North Carolina (/ˌkærəˈlaɪnə/ ^ⓘ 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 list of North Carolina hurricanes before 1900 encompasses 139 tropical cyclones that affected the U.S. state of North Carolina. Collectively, cyclones in North Carolina during the time period resulted in over 775 direct fatalities during the period. Seven cyclones affected the state in the 1893 season, which was the year with the most tropical cyclones impacting the state during the time period. From the beginning of the official North Atlantic hurricane record in 1851 to 1899, there were 12 years without a known tropical cyclone affecting the state. The strongest hurricane to hit the state during the official record was the San Ciriaco hurricane of 1899, which struck the state with winds of 120 mph (195 km/h), although the 1821 Norfolk and Long Island Hurricane may have been stronger.

Historical data prior to 1700 is sparse due to lack of significant European settlements along the coastline; the few storms listed are largely records from Roanoke Colony and later the Province of Carolina. Modern meteorologists believe early storms were tropical cyclones, though due to the time period confirmation is impossible. One theory explaining the disappearance of Roanoke Colony suggests a hurricane destroyed the village, though there is no evidence to prove the theory. It is considered unlikely due to lack of damage to a fence around the village, on which the villagers left an inscription. (Full article...)

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The University of North Carolina is the public university system for the state of North Carolina. Overseeing the state's 16 public universities and the NC School of Science and Mathematics, it is commonly referred to as the UNC System to differentiate it from its first campus, UNC-Chapel Hill.

The university system has a total enrollment of 244,507 students as of fall 2021. UNC campuses conferred 62,930 degrees in 2020–2021, the bulk of which were at the bachelor's level, with 44,309 degrees awarded. In 2008, the UNC System conferred over 75% of all baccalaureate degrees in North Carolina. (Full article...)

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Image 1Commercial Airports in North Carolina (from Transportation in North Carolina)
Image 2First successful flight of the Wright Flyer, near Kitty Hawk, 1903 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 3Map 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 41st Maryland Regiment holding the line at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, 1781 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 5Map of the roads and railroads of North Carolina, 1854 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 6North 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 7Signers Monument, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, in Greensboro (from History of North Carolina)
Image 8Reconstructed royal governor's mansion, Tryon Palace, in New Bern (from History of North Carolina)
Image 9Halifax Resolves plaque (from History of North Carolina)
Image 10Country store in Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 11Artists conception of Town Creek Indian Mound during the late Town Creek-early Leak phases circa 1350 CE (from History of North Carolina)
Image 12Bennett Place, historic site of major Confederate surrender in Durham (from History of North Carolina)
Image 13Union captures Fort Fisher, 1865 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 14Map 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 15Sir Walter Raleigh, sponsor of the Roanoke Colony, and namesake of the capital city of North Carolina, Raleigh (from History of North Carolina)
Image 16Map of Research Triangle, with points representing NC State University, Duke University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (from History of North Carolina)
Image 17A map showing the proposed route of the de Soto Expedition, based on the 1997 Charles Hudson map (from History of North Carolina)
Image 18Ceremony of Secotan warriors in North Carolina. Watercolour by English colonist John White, 1585 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 19William Woods Holden, a Unionist who served as the 38th and 40th Governor of North Carolina, and during the Reconstruction era (from History of North Carolina)

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... that the owners of North Carolina radio station WBIG justified shutting it down by noting that the metropolitan area had outgrown its signal?
... that the slopes near Bass Lake at Flat Top Manor in North Carolina were covered with hundreds of apple trees?
... that The Washington Post described a North Carolina dive bar as "a middle finger to the development surrounding it"?
... that equipment from a bankrupt North Carolina TV station was dismantled, loaded on three rental trucks, and reassembled to start a station in Virginia?
... that Claudia Watkins, the only "lady judge" in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, in 1969, thought it was "no big deal"?
... that a TV station in North Carolina changed its call letters in memory of its general sales manager, who was shot dead in an incident at its studios?

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