Charlotte in North Carolina

Charlotte is the largest city of the North Carolina State and 17th by population in the United States of America. Charlotte city is located in Mecklenburg County. It has an area of 629 km ² of which 0.6 km ² are covered by water and a population of 651.101 inhabitants according to estimates from 2005, and with a density of 861.9 inhabitants/ km ² according to the United States Census 2000. The town was founded in the eighteenth century, and built on 20 May 1755, although this date is often disputed. Charlotte metropolitan area had in 2006 an estimated population of almost 1,6 million. According to other estimates, in 2005, Charlotte-Gastonia-urban congestion of Salisbury had a population estimated at 2,120,745 inhabitants.

The city of North Carolina is the center of a region with one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in the whole United States, with an influx of over 20,000 newcomers each year only in the past decade. Charlotte is the seat of Mecklenburg County, located in the south central part of the state near the border with South Carolina. It is also sometimes called the Queen City as the original, The Queen City, like Cincinnati as it is known that the city was named in the honor of King George’s wife.

The city guide includes information about the circuit in the suburbs of the city. It is an oval circuit called Charlotte Motor Speedway circuit. It is built very similar with the Atlanta Motor Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway, and has a length of 1.5 miles or 2.4 km with an inclination of 24 ° in curves and 5 ° in straight with a capacity of 217 thousand spectators. Built in 1959, the complex contains, in addition to external oval track, a mixed circuit of 2.25 miles. The circuit annually hosts NASCAR events, including the All Star Challenge, where only winners compete and the public vote for a prize of one million dollars.