North Carolina’s economy is divided into two categories, agriculture and industry. Poultry and eggs, tobacco, hogs, milk, nursery stock, cattle and soybeans is for the agricultural side and Tobacco products, textile goods, chemical products, electric equipment, machinery and tourism is for the industrial side.
Here our the cities, in the state of North Carolina covers 53,821 square miles and has a population of 8,049,313 people. North Carolina’s capital is Raleigh, which has a population of 276,093. Other important cities are Charlotte (pop. 540,828), Greensboro (pop. 223,891), Durham, (pop. 187,035), Winston-Salem (pop. 185,776), Fayetteville (pop. 121,015), Cary (pop. 94,536), High Point (pop. 85,839), Wilmington (pop. 75,838) and Asheville (pop. 68,889
2010 accolodes of North Carolina
No. 1 Lowest State & Local Tax Burden on Business, Council on State Taxation and Ernst & Young, April 2010
No. 2 Best State for Business by CEOs, Chief Executive magazine, May/June 2010
No. 4 America’s Top States for Business survey, CNBC, July 2010
No. 4 Economic Growth Potential, Business Facilities magazine, July/August 2010
No. 5 Pro-Business State, Pollina Corporate Real Estate, August 2010
No. 5 Workforce Training Leaders, Business Facilities magazine, July/August 2010
No. 6 Best Business Climate, Business Facilities magazine, July/August 2010
No. 6 Biofuels Manufacturing Research Leaders, Business Facilities magazine, July/August 2010
No. 7 Biotechnology Strength, Business Facilities magazine, July/August 2010
2010 CiCi Awards: A North Carolina economic development project won a Community Impact award – Talecris Biotherapeutics in Clayton, Trade and Industry Development magazine, March/April 2010