Burlington, NC

Alamance County is a county in North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 171,415. Its county seat is Graham. Formed in 1849 from Orange County to the east, Alamance County has been the site of significant historical events, textile manufacturing, and agriculture.

Type: Economic region with 150,000 residents
Description: metropolitan area in North Carolina, United States
Also known as: “15500”, “Burlington metropolitan area”, “Burlington, NC Metro Area”, “Burlington, NC metropolitan area”, “Burlington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area”, and “Burlington, NC MSA”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Burlington and Graham.

Burlington

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Burlington is a city in predominantly Alamance County in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The city is located in the Piedmont Triad, where it is the principal city of the Burlington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, located directly east of the Greensboro-High Point Metropolitan Area.

Graham

Town

Graham is a city and the county seat of Alamance County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Burlington, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census the population was 17,153.

Burlington, NC

Category: metropolitan statistical area
Location: North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

36.0437° or 36° 2′ 37″ north

Longitude

-79.3994° or 79° 23′ 58″ west

Population

150,000

Elevation

607 feet (185 metres)

Open location code

87822JV2+F6

GeoNames ID

12213257

Wikidata ID

Q6173901

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In Other Languages

From German to Spanish—“Burlington, NC” goes by many names.

German: “Metropolregion Burlington”
Slovenian: “metropolitansko območje Burlington”
Spanish: “Area metropolitana de Burlington”
Spanish: “Área metropolitana de Burlington”

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