NC North Carolina Facebook Foursquare Twitter North Carolina News NC News North Carolina Counties Rank City/Town Population County 1 Charlotte Mecklingburg 2 Raleigh Wake 3 Greensboro Guilford 4 Winston-Salem Forsyth 5 Durham Durham 6 Fayetteville Cumberland 7 Cary Wake 8 Wilmington New Hanover 9 High Point Guilford 10 Greenville Pitt 11 Asheville Buncombe 12 Concord Cabarrus 13 Gastonia Gaston 14 Jacksonville Onslow 15 Rocky Mount Nash 16 Chapel Hill Orange 17 Burlington Alamance 18 Wilson Wilson 19 Huntersville Mecklenburg 20 Kannapolis Cabarrus 21 Hickory Catawba 22 Apex Wake 23 Goldsboro 36,437 Wayne 24 Salisbury 33,662 Rowan 25 Indian Trail Union 26 Monroe Union 27 Mooresville Iredell 28 Wake Forest