Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro | ||
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Nickname : Gate City | ||
Greensboro skyline |
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Location in North Carolina | ||
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Basic data | ||
Foundation : | 1808 | |
State : | United States | |
State : | North Carolina | |
County : | Guilford County | |
Coordinates : | 36 ° 5 ′ N , 79 ° 49 ′ W | |
Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | |
Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
287,027 (as of 2016) 756,139 (as of 2016) |
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Population density : | 1,058.4 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Area : | 283 km 2 (approx. 109 mi 2 ) of which 271.2 km 2 (approx. 105 mi 2 ) land |
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Height : | 266 m | |
Area code : | +1 336 | |
FIPS : | 37-28000 | |
GNIS ID : | 1020557 | |
Website : | www.greensboro-nc.gov | |
Mayor : | Nancy Vaughan |
Greensboro is a city in Guilford County in the US state of North Carolina . Greensboro is the third largest city in North Carolina and the largest city in the Piedmont Triad region.
history
The city, founded in 1808 as Greensborough, is located in the center of North Carolina in the Piedmont region ("at the foot of the mountain"). This is where Interstate 85 and Interstate 40 intersect .
Four African American students held the first sit-in here in 1960 in a restaurant reserved for whites to protest against racial discrimination . Later, in 1979, a massacre occurred in Greensboro when members of the American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan murdered five protesters. The perpetrators were acquitted by a jury consisting only of whites.
Population development
year | Residents¹ |
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2000 | 236.152 |
2010 | 268,877 |
2016 | 287.027 |
2018 | 294,722 |
¹ 2000–2010: census results; 2016/2018 : US Census Bureau estimate.
Colleges
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG)
- North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCA & T)
- Guilford College
- Bennett College
- Greensboro College
- Guilford Technical Community College
- Elon University School of Law (opening fall 2006)
Sports
The Greensboro Grasshoppers are the local baseball team that plays in the South Atlantic League . Every fall, Forest Oaks Country Club hosts the traditional golf tournament, the Wyndham Championship , formerly the Chrysler Classic of Greensboro, one of the PGA's oldest events .
With the now dissolved Greensboro Monarchs and Greensboro Generals , the city had two ice hockey franchises that participated in the game operations of the East Coast Hockey League .
Economy and Infrastructure
economy
Greensboro's economy, which was formerly geared towards textiles, tobacco and furniture, has developed in the direction of trade, logistics and technology in the last few decades, benefiting from its central location in the state and the region and its proximity to the economically and demographically rapidly growing Research Triangle of the Raleigh metropolitan area. Durham-Chapel Hill. Resident companies include the former Lorillard Tobacco Company, the oldest tobacco manufacturer in the United States, now part of the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company , known for brands such as Newport and Winston ; also the young business aircraft manufacturer Honda Aircraft Company , the semiconductor manufacturer Qorvo and the North American division of the truck manufacturer Volvo Trucks as well as the truck manufacturer Mack Trucks , which belongs to the Volvo Aktiengesellschaft . FedEx Ground operates a regional transshipment depot for its parcel services in the city.
The largest employers in 2018 were:
employer | Workers |
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Cone Health | 9,425 |
Guilford County School System | 9.008 |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 3,175 |
City of Greensboro | 2,913 |
UnitedHealth | 2,861 |
Guilford County Governorate | 2,428 |
United States Postal Service | 2,300 |
Ralph Lauren | 2,201 |
Unifi Inc. | 2.153 |
HAECO | 2,000 |
traffic
The local airport is Piedmont Triad International Airport west of the city.
Town twinning
Greensboro's twin cities are Chișinău in Moldova and Montbéliard in France.
Personalities
- O. Henry (1862-1910), writer
- Sonny Terry (1911–1986), blues musician
- Thomas Berry (1914–2009), theologian, cultural historian and author
- Red Prysock (1926–1993), R&B and jazz musician
- Billy "Crash" Craddock (* 1939), country and rock 'n' roll musician
- Michael Anthony Foster (born 1939), science fiction author
- Henry Flynt (* 1940), avant-garde artist
- Louis Clyde Hudson (1944-2014), basketball player
- Terry Plumeri (1944–2016), musician and film composer
- Carolyn B. Maloney (born 1946), US Congressman
- Bob McAdoo (born 1951), basketball player
- Charles Foster (1953-2019), hurdler
- Shannon Cochran (* 1958), film and stage actress
- Gregory Charles Royal (* 1961), jazz trombonist
- Ken Jeong (* 1969), comedian and actor
- Brett Claywell (born 1978), actor
- John Isner (born 1985), tennis player
- Keenan Allen (born 1992), American football player
Climate table
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Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Greensboro, North Carolina
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Individual evidence
- ^ Civil Rights Greensboro: Greensboro Massacre . Library.uncg.edu. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ↑ US Census Bureau: American FactFinder - Community Facts. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
- ↑ 2018 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report , accessed June 8, 2019
- ↑ http://en.sistercity.info/sister-cities/Greensboro%2C%20North%20Carolina.html Sister Cities of the World - Greensboro, North Carolina