Charleston, South Carolina (usa)

Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston, South Carolina ranks 333rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Málaga, Luanda, and Nantes. Memorable people born in Charleston, South Carolina include Robert F. Furchgott, Robert Jordan, and Lauren Hutton. Memorable people who died in Charleston, South Carolina include Anne Bonny, Joseph Pulitzer, and Albert Pike. Charleston, South Carolina has been the birth place of many actors and politicians and the death place of many politicians and military personnels. Charleston, South Carolina is located in United States.

Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint of South Carolina's coastline on Charleston Harbor, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the confluence of the Ashley, Cooper, and Wando rivers. Charleston had a population of 150,227 at the 2020 census. The population of the Charleston metropolitan area, comprising Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties, was estimated to be 849,417 in 2023. It ranks as the third-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the state, and the 71st-most populous in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia