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| | North Carolina - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about North Carolina |
 | | State in southeastern USA, bordered to the north by Virginia, to the west and northwest by Tennessee, to the south by Georgia and South Carolina, and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean; area 126,161 sq km/48,711 52,650 sq mi; population 8,049,300 (2000); capital Raleigh. |
 | | North Carolina's colonial ethnic heritage is clearly seen in Swiss New Bern, settled in 1710, and in 18th-century buildings in the Moravian town of Old Salem, founded in 1766. |
 | | The plantation economy of South Carolina began to extend into the area in the southeast where rice, indigo, tobacco, and cotton were grown. |
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