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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 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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Charles DeWitt Watts (September 21, 1917 – July 12, 2004) was an African-American surgeon and activist for the poor. Watts was the first surgeon of African-American ancestry in North Carolina. Earning his medical degree in 1943 from Howard University College, he was the first African-American board-certified surgeon to serve in North Carolina. After surgical training at Freedman's Hospital in Washington, D.C., in 1949, he moved to Durham, North Carolina, in 1950 and established a clinic to provide access to medical services for the poor. Breaking the social customs of racial obstacles, he advocated for certification of African-American medical students. He also became a member of many professional colleges including the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine and the American College of Surgeons. He served as chief of surgery at Durham's Lincoln Hospital and was later one of the key figures in converting it to the Lincoln Community Health Center, a low-priced clinic for the poor. (Full article...)

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View from the Cliff Tops formation atop Mount Le Conte

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is an American national park in the southeastern United States, with parts in North Carolina and Tennessee. The park straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountain chain. The park contains some of the highest mountains in eastern North America, including Clingmans Dome, Mount Guyot, and Mount Le Conte. The border between the two states runs northeast to southwest through the center of the park. The Appalachian Trail passes through the center of the park on its route from Georgia to Maine. With 13 million visitors in 2023, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited national park in the United States.

The park encompasses 522,419 acres (816.28 sq mi; 211,415.47 ha; 2,114.15 km²), making it one of the largest protected areas in the eastern United States. The main park entrances are located along U.S. Highway 441 (Newfound Gap Road) in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and Cherokee, North Carolina, and also in Townsend, Tennessee. The park is internationally recognized for its mountains, waterfalls, biodiversity, and forests. In addition, the park preserves multiple historical structures that were part of communities occupied by early European-American settlers of the area. (Full article...)

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Image 11st Maryland Regiment holding the line at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, 1781 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 2A map showing the proposed route of the de Soto Expedition, based on the 1997 Charles Hudson map (from History of North Carolina)
Image 3Country store in Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 4Artists conception of Town Creek Indian Mound during the late Town Creek-early Leak phases circa 1350 CE (from History of North Carolina)
Image 5Map of the roads and railroads of North Carolina, 1854 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 6Map 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 7Commercial Airports in North Carolina (from Transportation in North Carolina)
Image 8Union captures Fort Fisher, 1865 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 9Reconstructed royal governor's mansion, Tryon Palace, in New Bern (from History of North Carolina)
Image 10Halifax Resolves plaque (from History of North Carolina)
Image 11Signers Monument, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, in Greensboro (from History of North Carolina)
Image 12William 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)
Image 13North 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 14Map 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 15First successful flight of the Wright Flyer, near Kitty Hawk, 1903 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 16Bennett Place, historic site of major Confederate surrender in Durham (from History of North Carolina)
Image 17Ceremony of Secotan warriors in North Carolina. Watercolour by English colonist John White, 1585 (from History of North Carolina)
Image 18Sir Walter Raleigh, sponsor of the Roanoke Colony, and namesake of the capital city of North Carolina, Raleigh (from History of North Carolina)
Image 19Map of Research Triangle, with points representing NC State University, Duke University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (from History of North Carolina)

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... that two Tuscarora men held their local newspaper hostage in an attempt to expose local police corruption, to no avail?
... that North Carolina television station WNAO-TV operated from a converted supper club?
... that according to media outlet WLOS, surveillance footage appears to contradict the initial police account of the shooting of Jason Harley Kloepfer at his home in Murphy, North Carolina?
... that in 2022, Julia Dorsey helped North Carolina win a national lacrosse championship and reach the national soccer final?
... that The Washington Post described a North Carolina dive bar as "a middle finger to the development surrounding it"?
... that the National Democratic Redistricting Committee supported lawsuits in North Carolina and Ohio against alleged gerrymandering by Republicans?

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