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Place Name
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Lee County
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Place Status (Type)
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county
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Capital is
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Sanford
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Population
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41,374 (1990)
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Location
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North Carolina, United States, North America
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Latitude
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35°28'N
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Longitude
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79°10'W
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Lee
, county (
259 sq mi/671 sq km; 1990 pop.
41,374), central N.C.;  Sanford; 35°28'N 79°10'W. In
forested Piedmont region in N and sandhill area in S; bounded NE by
Cape Fear R. and NW by Deep R. Agr. area (esp. tobacco; cotton, corn,
wheat, oats, soybeans, hay; chickens), timber. Mfg. at Sanford. Sand,
stone quarrying. Formed 1907.
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