Becoming the city of a greater population of the state and seat of the county to which it belongs. The state of North Carolina is cataloged in the South Atlantic division, which is located in the southern region, it also includes three geographic regions that are the main ones: the central region of Piedmont, also the Atlantic coastal plain, which occupies an eastern area of ​​the state and finally, the mountainous region in the western zone, which is part of the Appalachian Mountains.Ĭharlotte Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States. North Carolina borders the South region with South Carolina, is located in the southwest with Georgia, westward with Tennessee, and meets Virginia to the north and east with the Atlantic Ocean. The state is divided into 100 counties and houses 532 incorporated municipalities, of which are towns, cities or villages. According to the census carried out in 2010, North Carolina registered a population of approximately 10,042,802 inhabitants, a figure that ranked it ninth as the most populous state in the country and ranked 28th as the largest in the terrestrial area which covers an area of ​​53,819 square miles, corresponding to 139,390 km2 of land covered by land. North Carolina is one of the fifty states that make up the United States, located in the southern region of the country.