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Currituck County, North Carolina
Currituck 〔( Talk Like A Tarheel ), from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 2013-02-05.〕 County is the northeastern-most county in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 23,547.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/37/37053.html )〕 Its county seat is Currituck.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was formed in 1668 as a precinct of Albemarle County and later gained county status in 1739. The name is "traditionally said to be an Indian word for wild geese; Coratank."
Currituck County is included in the Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC Metropolitan Area. It is in the northeastern section of the state and is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, Currituck Sound, Camden County, Dare County and the state of Virginia. Currituck Court House, mentioned as early as 1755, was the name of the county seat. Today the words "Court House" have been dropped and only Currituck is used as the town name.
==Geography==
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (50%) is water.
Currituck County includes the northern communities of North Carolina's Outer Banks, separated from mainland Currituck County by the Currituck Sound.
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