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Greenville (/ ˈ ɡ r iː n v ɪ l / GREEN-vil; locally / ˈ ɡ r iː n v əl / GREEN-vəl) is the county seat and most populous city of Pitt County, North Carolina, United States.It is the principal city of the Greenville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, and the 12th-most populous city in North Carolina.
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]
Pitt County is a county located in the Inner Banks region of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 170,243, [1] making it the 14th-most populous county in North Carolina. Its county seat is Greenville. [2] Pitt County comprises the Greenville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Charlotte, largest city and metropolitan area Raleigh, second largest metropolitan area Greensboro, third largest metropolitan area Winston-Salem, fourth largest metropolitan area. The Charlotte–Concord–Gastonia MSA (as well as the Charlotte–Concord CSA) includes counties in South Carolina.
Despite the fact that North Carolina has hundreds of miles of beachfront territory, due to the Outer Banks and swampland along the coast the state lacks a good natural harbor. As such, North Carolina never developed a major port city as did neighboring states such as Georgia (Savannah), South Carolina (Charleston), and Virginia (Norfolk).
People fill the Falls Park bridge near Barnes Elliott, left, State Rep. Jason Elliott, and Tabitha Bone of Greenville, taking a break from work to view the solar eclipse at the peak time in ...
The Formation of the North Carolina Counties, 1663–1943. Raleigh: State Dept. of Archives and History, 1950. Reprint, Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, 1987. ISBN 0-86526-032-X; Powell, William S. The North Carolina Gazetteer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968. Reprint ...
The Greenville, North Carolina Combined Statistical Area is newly established and is defined by the United States Census Bureau as the Greenville, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Washington, NC Micropolitan Statistical Area. The 2012 population estimate was 220,061.