North Carolina

Population of North Carolina: 8049313

North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern United States of America. It was one of the original Thirteen Colonies, and the home of the first English colony in the Americas. It was also the location of the first successful heavier than air flight when the Wright brothers took off from the beach at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Today, it is a fast-growing state with an increasingly diverse economy and population.

North Carolina consists of three main geographic sections: the coastal plain, which occupies the eastern 45% of the state; the Piedmont region, which contains the middle 35%; and the Appalachian Mountains and foothills, which take up the remaining 20% of the state in the west.

The coastal plain begins in the east as a chain of narrow, sandy barrier islands known as the "Outer Banks". The Outer Banks encompass two sounds — Albemarle Sound in the north and Pamlico Sound in the south; they are the two largest landlocked sounds in the United States. Inland the coastal plain is relatively flat, with rich soils which grow tobacco, soybeans, and cotton. The major rivers of this section, the Neuse River, Tar River, Pamlico River, Cape Fear River, and Roanoke River, tend to be slow-moving and wide.

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