15 Sharp Facts About South Carolina.

Officially nicknamed the “Palmetto State,” South Carolina was the 8th state to join the United States of America on May 23, 1788.

It has a population of 5,148,714 (as of 2019), making it the 23rd most populous state. South Carolina is bordered by the states of North Carolina and Georgia.

With a total of 32,020 square miles (82,932 square kilometers) of land and water, it is the 40th largest state.

The capital of South Carolina is Columbia, located in the state’s center.

That’s enough fast facts about the Palmetto State; let’s jump on the 15 sharp facts about South Carolina!

It’s commonly believed that North America was first populated by a group of people we call the Paleo-Indians sometime around 13,000 BC.

As most theories go, they came into North America via a land bridge at the Bering Strait from the far east of modern-day Russia.

They then spread out and populated the Americas as they sought better hunting grounds and an easier way of life.

By around 8,000 BC, the region we now know as South Carolina had been populated by Paleo-Indians, who primarily lived a nomadic lifestyle.

By 1,000 BC, these people had developed more complex social structures and began to live, at least semi-permanently, in villages and lived partly off crops they grew.