North Carolina is a state located on the Atlantic coast in the southeastern United States. State borders South Carolina and Georgia in the south, the west Tennessee and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties and its capital Raleigh.
North Carolina was one of the original Thirteen Colonies, originally known as Carolina. Joara, a native village near present-day Morganton, was the place in 1567 of Fort San Juan, the first Spanish colonial settlement in the interior of what became the United States. A later founded a colony on the island called Roanoke, the first attempt to find the English settlement in America.
On May 20, 1861, North Carolina was one of the last confederate state to declare secession from the Union, which was returned to the 4th July 1868. State is the location of the first successful controlled, Powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight by Wright brothers, at Kill Devil Hills, about 6.4 miles from the Kitty Hawk in 1903. Today, it is a rapidly growing state the diverse economy and population. As of July 1, 2007, the population is estimated that there were 9,061,032. Recognition of eight Native American tribes, North Carolina has the largest population of any country Americans east of the Mississippi River.
North Carolina has a wide range of elevations, from sea level along the coast to almost 6700 feet in the mountains. The coastal plains are strongly influenced by the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the state falls in the humid subtropical zone. More than 300 miles from the coast, the western, mountainous part of the country has a subtropical highland climate.
As of 2008, North Carolina is the fourth-fastest growing state in the U.S. and the fastest growing state east of the Mississippi River.
Alabama is a state located in the southern part of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, east to Georgia, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th the total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland waterways. 23. States in the ranks of the population with almost 4.6 million inhabitants in 2006.
From the American Civil War to World War II, Alabama, like many Southern States, suffered economic difficulties, partly because of continued dependence on agriculture. White rural interests dominated the state legislature until 1960-by, while the interests of urban and African Americans are underrepresented. [5] In the years after World War II, Alabama experienced significant recovery as the economy of the state transitioned from agriculture to diversified interests in heavy manufacturing, mineral extraction, education and high technology, as well as the establishment or expansion of several military installations, especially those in the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force. Today, the government has intensively invested in the aerospace, education, healthcare, and banking, and various heavy manufacturing industries including automobile, mineral extraction, steel and manufacturing.
Alabama is unofficially nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, which is also the name of the state bird. Alabama is also known as the “”Heart of Dixie.”” The state tree is the Longleaf Pine, the state flower is the camellia. Capital city of Alabama is Montgomery, and the largest city by population is Birmingham. Largest city by total land area is Huntsville. The oldest city of Mobile.
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, from Washington to the north, in southern California, Nevada in the south-east and Idaho to the east. The Snake River between Columbia and a lot of Oregon’s northern and eastern boundaries respectively. The area is inhabited by many indigenous tribes prior to the arrival of traders, explorers and settlers, and the Oregon Territory was created in 1848 and Oregon became the 33rd 14th State February 1859. Salem is the state capital and third-most-populous city, Portland is the most populous. Portland is the 30th largest U.S. city with 575,930 inhabitants, a population 2,175,133 metro, 23 largest U.S. metro areas.
Willamette River valley in western Oregon in the most densely populated and productive agricultural region of the state and there are eight out of ten most populous cities. The state has 199 public school districts, with Portland Public Schools as the largest. There are 17 community colleges and seven publicly financed colleges in the Oregon University System. Oregon State University in Corvallis and the University of Oregon in Eugene are the two flagship state universities, while Portland State University is the largest enrollment.
Oregon has a diverse landscape including Scenic and windswept Pacific coast, volcanoes in the rugged and glaciated Cascade mountains, dense evergreen forests, high desert and through many eastern states. Douglas is the first and towering redwoods along the rainy Western Oregon coast provides dramatic contrast with the lower density and fire prone pine and spruce forests cover the eastern half of the state. In the eastern part of the state also includes the semi-arid scrublands, prairies, deserts and meadows. These drier areas stretching east of Central Oregon. Mount Hood is the highest point in the country at 11,249 feet. Crater lake national park is the only national park in Oregon. Oregon is in the United States’ leader in forest fires, in 2007 Oregon had more than 1000 forest fires.
