North Carolina Geography and Climate

North Carolina is home to over 7 million people, making it the 11th most populous state in the country.

From Manteo in the east to Murphy in the west, North Carolina is 560 miles wide, making it the widest state east of the Mississippi. Bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Tennessee on the west, Virginia to the north, and South Carolina and Georgia to the south, North Carolina is divided into three distinct geographic areas: the Mountains in the west, the Piedmont, or rolling hills, in the center, and the Coast in the east.

North Carolina, in the warm temperate zone, has a mild, generally uniform climate, with abundant and well distributed rainfall. Winters are rarely extremely cold, and although summers can be somewhat hot, an escape can always be found in the cooler air of our mountains or the ocean breezes of our beaches.

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