Individual #North_Carolina__Old_North_State__Tar_Heel_State__NC  a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies
  instance of:  American_state
  part:  Great_Smoky_Mountains_National_Park  Cape_Fear  Cape_Hatteras  Hatteras_Island  Raleigh  Asheville  Chappel_Hill  Charlotte  Durham  Fayetteville.North_Carolina  Greensboro  Greenville.North_Carolina  Wilmington.North_Carolina  Winston-Salem  Cape_Fear_River
  member of:  Confederate_States_of_America
  part of:  USA__United_States_of_America__United_States__America__US__U.S.__U.S.A.  North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
     part of:  North_America  a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
        part of:  northern_hemisphere  the hemisphere north of the equator
        part of:  western_hemisphere__westernhemisphere__occident__New_World  the hemisphere that includes North and South America
        part of:  the_Americas__America  North and South America

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