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Orange County
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county in North Carolina, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- North Carolina
- Named after
- Unknown; possibly William V of Orange or William of Orange
- Seat
- Hillsborough
- Largest community
- Chapel Hill
- Total
- 400.96 sq mi (1,038.5 km )
- Land
- 397.56 sq mi (1,029.7 km )
- Water
- 3.40 sq mi (8.8 km ) 0.85%
- Estimate 2025
- 152,498
- Density
- 374.02/sq mi (144.41/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 4th
- Website
- orangecountync .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Orange County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 148,696. Its county seat is Hillsborough. Orange County is included in the Durham–Chapel Hill, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Raleigh–Durham–Cary, NC Combined Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 2,368,947 in 2023.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orange County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.