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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