North Carolina

North Carolina
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base data
pointed name:	Tar Heel State
capital:	Raleigh
largest city:	Charlotte
surface
rank (within the USA):	28
altogether:	139,509 km ²
country:	126,256 km ²
water (%):	13,227 km ² (9,5%)
Inhabitant
rank (within the USA):	11
altogether (2005):	8.683.242
density:	62 E./km ²
member state
place:	12
since:	21. November 1789
geography
time belt:	Eastern: UTC-5/-4
degree of latitude:	34°N to 36°21 " N
degree of longitude:	75°30'W to 84°15'W
broad:	240 km
length:	805 km
highest situation:	2,037 m
average situation:	215 m
deepest situation:	0 m
politics
governor:	Michael Easley
abbreviations
postal:	Numerical control
officially:
ISO 3166-2:	US-NC

North Carolina [ˈnɔːɹθˌkæɹəˈlaɪnə] (dt. Nordkarolina) is a US Federal State at the southeast coast of the USA, which on the Federal States South Carolina and Georgia (in the south), threshing floor lake (in the west) and Virginia (in the north) borders.

The capital of North Carolina is Raleigh, which is most densely populated city Charlotte.

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history

before the arrival of the first Europeans lived in North Carolina the Indian trunks of the Cherokee, Creek, Tuscarora, Lumbee and Catawba.

As first Europeans entered Giovanni Verrazano there in the year 1524 the area of the today's North Carolina.

Between 1580 and 1590 England tried to create two colonies in North Carolina. Both ended with a miss. Only tooBeginning 17. Century succeeded a permanent settlement of the national territory by immigrants from Virginia.

In the year 1705 became Bath, which establishes first city North Carolina.

1718 were killed the Pirat Blackbeard at the coast by North Carolina.

During the war of secession (1861 - 1865) the state belonged to the Southern State union of the Konföderierten states of America .

1903 started the brothers WRIGHT the first manned powered flight of mankind in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

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population

the population NorthCarolina grew from 1990 to 2000 of 6,6 millions on 8 millions Inhabitant.

The majority of the black population lives in the coastal region and in the parts of the Piedmont plateau, which was coined/shaped by the plan day economy originally.

About 100,000 inhabitants North Carolinaare Indians. They belong by the majority to the trunk of the Cherokee and Lumbee.

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largest cities

city	County	inhabitant 1. April of 2000	inhabitants 1. July 2004
Charlotte	Mecklenburg	540,828	594,359
Raleigh	Wake	276,093	326,653
Greensboro	Guilford	223,891	231,543
Durham	Durham	187,035	201,726
Winston Salem	Forsyth	185,776	191,523
Fayetteville	Cumberland	121,015	125,241
Cary	Wake	94,536	101,265
High POINT	Guilford	85,839	92,857
Wilmington	new Hanover	75,838	93,292
Asheville	Buncombe	68,889	70,400
Jacksonville	Onslow	66,715	72,335
Gastonia	gas clay/tone	66,277	68,292
Greenville	Pitt	60.476
North	Carolina	leaves itself	68,687
Concord Cabarrus	55,977	59,960	Rocky
Mount Nash	55,893	56,351	Chapel
Hill	orange	48,715	49,368
Burlington	Alamance	44,917	46,645

Wilson Wilson 44,405

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topographic map North Carolina geographical inthree parts arranged: The Piedmont plateau, the coastal plain at the Atlantic and the Appalachen. The highest summit of the Appalachen, the Mount Mitchell (2,037 m and. NN), lies in North Carolina.

About two thirds of the country become from thatAtlantic coastal plain taken. The soil consists of soft, uncompressed sediment layers such as sand and alumina. A narrow island chain, which admits also as Outer bank is, is pre-aged to the coast.

The Piedmout plateau takes about two fifth of the surface North Carolina.It is appropriate west for the coastal plain.

The Appalachen forms the west border of the state.

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economics to the most important agricultural products tobacco, corn, soy beans and peanuts. The Viehwirtschaft strengthened after that 2. World war.

The most importantBranches of industry are mechanical engineering, textile industry and electro-technology. The so-called “Research trifishes” around Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill is one of the most dynamic High carouse regions of the USA (particularly in the industries IT and biotechnology).

With the private Duke University and the nationalUNC (University OF North Carolina RK Chapel Hill) possesses North Carolina prominent universities of the country.

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Countys in the US Federal State North Carolina

North Carolina

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see also

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