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1 | ![]() | Raleigh, North Carolina ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 76 Lat/Lng : 35.8189 / -78.6447 | Raleigh is the capital of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States. Raleigh is the second-largest city in the state, after Charlotte. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees, which line the streets in the heart of the city (...) |
2 | ![]() | Wilmington, North Carolina ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 34.2231 / -77.9119 | Wilmington is a port city and the county seat of New Hanover County in coastal southeastern North Carolina, United States. With a population of in 2017, it is the eighth most populous city in the state. Wilmington is the principal city of the Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area, a metropolitan (...) |
3 | ![]() | Durham, North Carolina ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 95 Lat/Lng : 35.9875 / -78.9072 | Durham is a city in and the county seat of Durham County in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city's population to be 251,893 as of July 1, 2014, making it the 4th-most populous city in North Carolina, and the 78th-most populous city in the United States (...) |
4 | ![]() | Spartanburg, South Carolina ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 244 Lat/Lng : 34.9467 / -81.9275 | Spartanburg is the most populous city in and the seat of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States, and the 12th-largest city by population in the state. The city of Spartanburg has a municipal population of 37,013, and Spartanburg County has an urban population of 180,786 as of the 2010 (...) |
5 | Gastonia, North Carolina ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 247 Lat/Lng : 35.2553 / -81.1803 | Gastonia is the largest city and county seat of Gaston County, North Carolina, United States. It is also the second largest satellite city of the Charlotte area, behind Concord. The population was 71,741 at the 2010 Census. In 2016, the population had increased to 75,536 (...) | |
6 | ![]() | Charleston, South Carolina ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 10 Lat/Lng : 32.7761 / -79.9325 | Charleston is the oldest and largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston–Summerville Metropolitan Statistical Area.As defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, for use by the U.S (...) |
7 | ![]() | Richmond International Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 47 Lat/Lng : 37.505 / -77.3194 | Richmond International Airport is a joint civil-military public airport in Sandston, Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community (within Henrico County). The airport is about 7 miles (11 km) southeast of downtown Richmond, the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia (...) |
8 | Cabarrus County, North Carolina ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 193 Lat/Lng : 35.39 / -80.55 | Cabarrus County , from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2013-02-08. is a county located in the south-central part of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 178,011 (...) | |
9 | Concord, North Carolina ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 196 Lat/Lng : 35.4044 / -80.6006 | Concord (/ˈkɒn.kord/) is a city in Cabarrus County, in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 79,066, with an estimated population in 2016 of 89,891. It is the county seat and the largest city in Cabarrus County (...) | |
10 | Kannapolis, North Carolina ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 244 Lat/Lng : 35.4906 / -80.6183 | Kannapolis (Kŭh-nă-pŭh-lŭs) is a city in Cabarrus and Rowan counties, in the U.S. state of North Carolina, northwest of Concord and northeast of Charlotte and is a suburb in the Charlotte metropolitan area. The city of Kannapolis was incorporated in 1984 (...) | |
11 | North Carolina ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 147 Lat/Lng : 35.5 / -80.0 | North Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. It borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U.S. states (...) | |
12 | Cary, North Carolina ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 150 Lat/Lng : 35.7789 / -78.8003 | Cary is the seventh-largest municipality in North Carolina. Cary is predominantly in Wake County, with a small area in Chatham County in the U.S. state of North Carolina and is the county's second-largest municipality, as well as the third-largest municipality in The Triangle of North Carolina after (...) | |
13 | Research Triangle ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 119 Lat/Lng : 35.88 / -78.79 | The Research Triangle, commonly referred to as simply The Triangle, is a region in the Piedmont of North Carolina in the United States, anchored by the three major research universities of North Carolina State University, Duke University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as (...) | |
14 | Gaston County, North Carolina ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 230 Lat/Lng : 35.3 / -81.18 | Gaston County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 206,086. The county seat is Gastonia. Dallas served as the original county seat from 1846 until 1911. Gaston County is included in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metropolitan Statistical (...) | |
15 | Greenville, North Carolina ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 35.6017 / -77.3725 | Greenville is the county seat and the most populous city in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States. The principal city of the Greenville metropolitan area, and the 10th-most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina (...) | |
16 | York County, South Carolina ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 191 Lat/Lng : 34.97 / -81.18 | York County is a county located in the north-central section of the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 226,073. Its county seat is York, South Carolina, and its largest city is Rock Hill (...) | |
17 | Belmont, North Carolina ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 212 Lat/Lng : 35.2444 / -81.0356 | Belmont is a small suburban city in Gaston County, North Carolina, United States, located about west of uptown Charlotte and east of Gastonia. The population was 10,076 at the 2010 census. Once known as Garibaldi Station, the name change for Belmont is disputed (...) | |
18 | Wake Forest University ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 288 Lat/Lng : 36.1332 / -80.2772 | Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, founded in 1834. The university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina (...) | |
19 | Upstate South Carolina ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 224 Lat/Lng : 34.7167 / -82.1833 | The Upstate is the region in the westernmost part of South Carolina, United States, also known as the Upcountry,Hollis, Daniel Walker, University of South Carolina, Volume I, South Carolina College, 1951, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, p 342 which is the historical term (...) | |
20 | Asheville Regional Airport ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 653 Lat/Lng : 35.4361 / -82.5417 | Asheville Regional Airport is a Class C airport near Interstate 26 near the town of Fletcher, south of downtown Asheville, in the U.S. state of North Carolina, United States. It is owned by the Greater Asheville Regional Airport Authority (...) | |
21 | Conover, North Carolina ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 327 Lat/Lng : 35.7111 / -81.2197 | Conover is a city in Catawba County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 8,165 at the 2010 census, with an estimated population of 8,236 in 2013, making Conover the fastest growing city in the Hickory Metro Area (...) | |
22 | Lake Norman ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 231 Lat/Lng : 35.487 / -80.9418 | Lake Norman, created between 1959 and 1964 as part of the construction of the Cowans Ford Dam by Duke Energy, is the largest man-made body of fresh water in North Carolina. (...) | |
23 | Pineville, North Carolina ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 5681 Lat/Lng : 35.0856 / 80.8881 | Pineville (; locally) is a suburban town in the southernmost portion of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina situated in the Waxhaws district between Charlotte, North Carolina and Fort Mill, South Carolina. (...) | |
24 | Gardner–Webb University ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 258 Lat/Lng : 35.2475 / -81.6706 | Gardner–Webb University (Gardner–Webb, GWU, or GW) is a private, four-year Christian university in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. Founded as Boiling Springs High School in 1905 as a Baptist institution, it is currently the youngest North Carolina Baptist university (...) | |
25 | Roan Mountain (Roan Highlands) ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1684 Lat/Lng : 36.1064 / -82.1103 | Roan Mountain is the highpoint of the Roan-Unaka Range of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, located in the Southeastern United States. The mountain is clad in a dense stand of Southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest, and includes the world's largest natural rhododendron garden, and the longest (...) | |
26 | Hurricane Florence ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 22.7 / -46.6 | Hurricane Florence was a powerful and long-lived Cape Verde hurricane that caused severe damage in the Carolinas in September 2018, primarily as a result of freshwater flooding. Florence dropped a maximum total of of rain in Elizabethtown, North Carolina, becoming the wettest tropical cyclone (...) | |
27 | WRDC ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 101 Lat/Lng : 35.6764 / -78.5356 | WRDC, virtual and UHF digital channel 28, is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station licensed to Durham, North Carolina, United States and serving the Triangle region (Raleigh–Durham–Chapel Hill–Fayetteville) (...) | |
28 | Indian Land, South Carolina ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 206 Lat/Lng : 35.0019 / -80.8567 | Indian Land is an unincorporated community in the northernmost part (the "Panhandle") of Lancaster County, South Carolina, United States. It lies east of Fort Mill, just south of Ballantyne in southern Charlotte, and west of the villages of Marvin and Waxhaw in North Carolina (...) | |
29 | Warren Wilson College ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 680 Lat/Lng : 35.611 / -82.4419 | Warren Wilson College (also called WWC) is a private four-year liberal arts college near Asheville, North Carolina, in the Swannanoa Valley. The college offers classes in a range of disciplines with Environmental Studies and Creative Writing among the most popular (...) | |
30 | High Rock Lake ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 187 Lat/Lng : 35.6289 / -80.2511 | High Rock Lake is a reservoir lake located in the Davidson and Rowan counties of North Carolina, serving as a boundary between them. It is a reservoir for hydroelectric power generation. It is the northernmost of the Uwharrie Lakes and the second largest lake in North Carolina behind Lake Norman (...) | |
31 | High School for the Performing and Visual Arts ![]() FeatureType : edu Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 29.7372 / -95.3883 | High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA or PVA) is a secondary school located at 4001 Stanford Street in the Montrose district of Houston, Texas. The school is a part of the Houston Independent School District. The school educates grades nine through twelve (...) | |
32 | Asia Society ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 37 Lat/Lng : 40.7698 / -73.9643 | The Asia Society is a non-profit organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia. It has several centers in the United States (Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, DC, and New York) and around the world (Hong Kong, Manila, Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, and Zurich) (...) | |
33 | National Diaper Bank Network ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 14 Lat/Lng : 41.3061 / -72.925 | The National Diaper Bank Network is a United States-based non-profit organization that is dedicated to ensuring that every child in the U.S. has an adequate supply of diapers to remain clean, dry and healthy. NDBN is a nationwide network of independently operating diaper banks and pantries that (...) | |