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Red marks the area most commonly associated with the term Inner Banks. Yellow marks the additional area sometimes included in Inner Banks definitions.

Historic Columbia, NC.

The Inner Banks is a neologism made up by developers and tourism promoters to describe the inland coastal region of eastern North Carolina. Without historical precedent, the term "Inner Banks" is an early 21st-century construct that is part of an attempt to rebrand the mostly agrarian coastal plain east of I-95 as a more attractive region for visitors and retirees.