North Carolina, whose nickname is The Tar Heel State, is a state along the Atlantic seaboard and one of the thirteen original colonies to join the United States. Virtually no other state has been so hard hit by the practice of offshoring manufacturing jobs to other countries. An astounding twenty percent of North Carolina’s jobs, especially those in the textile and furniture industries, have been lost in recent years to countries in Asia and Latin America. North Carolina is making a comeback, however, in information technology and biotechnology as evidenced by the state’s ambitious North Carolina Research Campus. CityBook.com has comprehensive online yellow pages for North Carolina’s three largest cities, Charlotte, Raleigh and Greensboro, as well as online telephone directories that cover dozens of other cities in counties like Forsyth, Durham, Union and Pitt. These business yellow pages help residents and out-of-state visitors to make business connections throughout North Carolina or find a local plumber, real estate agent, bank or home mortgage lender and education.