Category:North America/United States of America/North Carolina/Gastonia/

Coordinates: 35°15′19″N 81°10′49″W 35.255220, -81.180249

Gastonia

Gastonia is a city in North Carolina, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Gaston County. The population was 66,277 according to the 2000 census (35% of the population of Gaston County). It is part of the Charlotte metropolitan area, officially designated the Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As the second-largest city (in population) in the MSA after Charlotte, Gastonia has experienced steady growth, with a population change during the 1990s (according the US Census Bureau) of more than +10%^[1]

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