North Carolina Guard Air Station in Elizabeth City. Also stationed in North Carolina is the Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point in Southport. General History Government and education Other North Carolina North Carolina () is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. It borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U.S. states. The state is divided into 100 counties. The capital is Raleigh, which along with Durham and Chapel Hill
Peletier, North Carolina Peletier, North Carolina Peletier is a town in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 644 at the 2010 census. The town was named for the late-18th century Pelletier family. Peletier is located in western Carteret County at . It is bordered to the south by the towns of Cape Carteret and Cedar Point. To the west is the tidal White Oak River, which forms the Carteret/Onslow County line. To the north and east is Croatan National Forest. North Carolina Highway 58 passes through Peletier, leading south to Emerald Isle on the Atlantic shoreline, and northwest to Maysville