Home > Relocation: North Carolina
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Capital City: Raleigh
Location: 35.821N, 078.658W
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- Admission to Statehood: November 21, 1789
- Area: 53821 sq.mi, 28th Land 48718 sq. mi., 29th Water 5103 sq.mi., 10th Coastline 301 mi., 7th Shoreline 3,375 mi., 6th
- Cam World: Live Web Cams
- City Guides: North Carolina City Guides
- Climate: North Carolina
- Constitution: 12th State
- County Profile: Text List 100 Counties
- Courts: Judicial System
- Current Events: North Carolina News Headlines
- Driving: DMV
- 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."
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- Geographic Center: Chatham, 10 miles northwest of Sanford
- Governor: Michael F. Easley (D)
- Highest Point: Mt. Mitchell; 6,684 feet, 16th
- Highway Markers: North Carolina Resource Manual
- History: Historical Civil War
- Largest Cities: Charlotte Raleigh Greensboro Durham Winston-Salem Fayetteville Cary High Point Wilmington Asheville
- License Plates: North Carolina
- Lowest Point: Atlantic coast; sea level, 3rd
- Media: Radio TV
- Motto: Esse quam videri
- To be, rather than to seem
- National Forest: North Carolina
- Nickname: Old North State / 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: Quick facts 8,049,313; 11th, 12/00
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- Public Records: North Carolina
- State Parks: North Carolina
- Weather: Raleigh / Durham, Raleigh-Durham International
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