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Charlotte is the largest city in the Carolinas and the 20th largest city in the United States. It has a population of six hundred thirty thousand, four hundred seventy-eight people. Charlotte is the county seat of Mecklenburg County and is located in the south-central part of the state in the Piedmont region, near the South Carolina border. The city's economy has matured in the nineteen-nineties and early two thousands to become dominated by financial services, as well as retail commerce. Charlotte is the 5th fastest growing among large U.S. cities. It has the nickname ‘The Queen City’, which it shares with Cincinnati, Ohio and Buffalo, New York. Charlotte was named in honor of Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg, wife of King George III of the United Kingdom. During the American Revolution the British Commander in the Southern Colonies, General Cornwallis, occupied Charlotte but was driven out soon afterwards by the fierce opposition of the city's residents to British rule. Cornwallis famously wrote that Charlotte was "a hornet's nest of rebellion", leading to another city nickname: The Hornet's Nest. In nineteen eighty-nine, the city took a direct hit from Hurricane Hugo. Passing through Charlotte with wind gusts over one hundred mph. Hugo caused massive property damage and knocked out power to ninety-eight percent of the population. Many residents were without power for several weeks and cleanup took months to complete. Being a city far inland, residents, city government and the utilities were not prepared to handle such a powerful hurricane. Over eighty thousand trees were destroyed in Charlotte. In December two thousand two, Charlotte was hit by a massive ice storm that knocked out power to over 1.2 million Duke Power customers. According to a Duke Energy representative: "This ice storm surpasses the damage from Hurricane Hugo in nineteen eighty-nine, which had six hundred ninety-six thousand outages." During an abnormally cold December, many were without power for more than two weeks.
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