Greensboro, North Carolina

Greensboro, North Carolina, is a city located in Guilford County in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 223,891 making it the third most populous city in North Carolina. Its estimated population in 2004 was 231,543. It is located at the intersection of two interstate highways (I-85 and I-40) in the Piedmont ("foot of the mountains") region, in Guilford County in the central part of the state. In 1808, Greensborough (as it was spelled then) replaced Guilford Court House as the county seat.

Colleges, Schools and Universities

• Bennett College
• Guilford College
• North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro, founded as the "State Normal School for Girls" in 1891 by Charles Duncan McIver, later the Women's College of the University of North Carolina, and now a coeducational autonomous campus of the University of North Carolina System.
• Greensboro College
• Guilford Technical Community College
• Canterbury School
• Greensboro Day School
• American Hebrew Academy, the nation's only private, Jewish, college-prep, co-ed boarding school for grades 9-12.
• Grimsley High School, first public high school in Greensboro.