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Buncombe County

County in western North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge Mountains; area 1,707 sq km/659 sq mi; population (1990) 174,800. Its capital is Asheville. Farming, lumbering, and tourism are important. Industries, focused in Asheville, manufacture textiles, furniture, and paper products.

The county includes sections of the Pisgah National Forest in the east and southwest. It is drained by the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers.

It gave its name to a popular term, now usually bunkum or bunk, when its congressman Felix Walker made a long, pointless speech in the House of Representatives in about 1820. Asked what he had meant, he said that he had felt it his duty to speak ‘for Buncombe’.
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