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General Information

North Carolina is a state located on the east coast of the United States, in the South Atlantic region of the southern region of the USA.

State borders Virginia in the north, Tennessee in the west, Georgia in the southwest, and South Carolina in the south. The eastern boundary of the state forms the Atlantic Ocean.

History

The origin of the state dates back to the time of the English crown colony, which was founded in 1663 and named in honor of the English King Charles I.

In 1729, it was divided into northern and southern parts. In 1776, North Carolina was one of 13 colonies that emerged in the American Declaration of Independence from the British Crown, becoming one of the original thirteen founding states of the United States.

As the twelfth state in a row, it ratified the Constitution of the United States of America on November 21, 1789.

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The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, which has been under construction since 1947, is of vital importance to North Carolina and is the only publicly funded North Carolina museum with the largest collection of art in North Carolina.

In the Appalachian Mountains, partly in Tennessee, the National Park Service (NPS) is managed by the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is the most visited national park in the United States, visited by more than 9 million people a year.

Fun facts

Many people were born in North Carolina whose significance transcended national borders. Richard Dobbs Spaight (1758-1802) was one of the signatories to the US Constitution, James K. Polk (1797-1849) was the 11th President of the United States, born in 1936.

Elizabeth Dole was Senator and Secretary of Transportation under Ronald Reagan. Born in North Carolina in 1937, economist Daniel McFadden won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics, and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and publisher of The Wall Street Journal, Vermont C. Royster (1914-1996). Actress Ava Gardner (1922-1990), as well as her colleague and gospel singer Andy Griffith (1926-2012) were also born in North Carolina.

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