NC American plate atlas

North Carolina

The Tar Heel State

Meet the plate, people, places, and stories behind one of the road-trip game’s fifty-one essential finds.

North Carolina license plate
The North Carolina plate in the game

Capital

Raleigh

State bird

Northern cardinal

Ratified the Constitution

November 21, 1789

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A quick trip through time

The North Carolina story

North Carolina stretches from Cherokee homelands and Appalachian communities to Piedmont cities and Outer Banks ports. Aviation, furniture, textiles, universities, banking, and technology all mark its history.

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Bumper-sized history

About the plate

First in Flight is one of America’s signature license-plate slogans, honoring the Wright brothers’ 1903 flight at Kitty Hawk.