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North Carolina Geography
North Carolina
Geography, North Carolina Facts
About half of Alabama
North Carolina has three distinct topological areas: The
Coastal Plain, the Piedmont Plateau and the Blue Ridge/Appalachian Mountains.
The Coastal Plain, bordered on the east by many beaches, offers opportunities
for farming, recreation, and manufacturing. The leading crops of this area are
bright leaf tobacco, peanuts, soybeans, and sweet potatoes. Large forested
areas, mostly pine, support pulp manufacturing and other forest-related
industries. The coast boasts extensive commercial and sport fishing, and
thousands of tourists visit the state's many beaches. A slender, fragile chain
of islands known as the Outer Banks protects the North Carolina coast.
The Appalachian Mountains region includes more than 200 mountains that exceed
5,000 feet or more. In this area, widely acclaimed for its beauty, tourism is an
outstanding business. The valleys and some of the hillsides serve as small farms
and apple orchards; and here and there are business enterprises, ranging from
small craft shops to large paper and rayon manufacturing plants.
The Piedmont Plateau, though dotted with many small rolling farms, is primarily
a manufacturing area in which the chief industries are furniture, tobacco, and
textiles. North Carolina's six largest cities: Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro,
Winston-Salem, Durham, and Fayetteville are in this region. The southeastern
section of the Piedmont is known as the Sandhills where peaches grow in
abundance. The Sandhills, with its nationally famous golf courses and stables,
is well known as a winter resort area.
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