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North Carolina Counties
North Carolina is divided into 100 counties. North Carolina ranks 28th in size by area,
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North Carolina Counties
North Carolina is 500 miles long and 150 miles wide. North Carolina covers 53,821 square miles, making it the 28th largest of the 50 states.
There are 100 Counties in North Carolina. North Carolina is one of the South Atlantic states of the US.
North Carolina is the 12th state admitted to the Union. North Carolina, one of the thirteen colonies, became the 12th state on November 21, 1789. North Carolina troops suffered the greatest losses of all the states during the Civil War while fighting for the Confederacy, re-entered the Union after
the fighting ceased.
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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