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Salisbury (/ ˈ s ɔː l z b ɛ r i / SAWLZ-ber-ee) [5] [6] is a city in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, United States; it has been the county seat of Rowan County since 1753 when its territory extended to the Mississippi River. [7] [8] Located 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Charlotte and within its metropolitan area, the town has ...
N.C. Rank U.S. Rank Combined Statistical Area Population (2023 est.) [1] 1 19 Charlotte–Concord: 3,387,115 2 31 Raleigh–Durham–Cary: 2,368,947 3 37
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated nine combined statistical areas, 15 metropolitan statistical areas, and 24 micropolitan statistical areas in North Carolina. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC CSA , comprising the state's largest city of Charlotte and its suburbs.
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According to the 2020 United States census, North Carolina is the 9th-most populous state with 10,439,388 inhabitants, but the 28th-largest by land area spanning 53,819 square miles (139,390 km 2) of land. [1] [2] North Carolina is divided into 100 counties and contains 551 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, or villages. [3]
As a result of the 2020 census, North Carolina gained another seat in the 118th United States Congress, for a total of 14. [224] After the 2024 elections, the state was represented by 10 Republicans and 4 Democrats. In a 2020 study, North Carolina was ranked as the 23rd easiest state for citizens to vote in. [225]
The district was re-established after the 1990 United States census, when North Carolina gained a House seat due to an increase in population.It was drawn in 1992 as one of two minority-majority districts, designed to give African-American voters (who comprised 22% of the state's population at the time) the chance to elect a representative of their choice; Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act ...
The United States Census Bureau, as of July 1, 2009, estimated North Carolina's population at 9,380,884 [4] which represents an increase of 1,340,334, or 16.7%, since the last census in 2000. [5] This exceeds the rate of growth for the United States as a whole.