Greenville

City and administrative headquarters of Greenville County, northwest South Carolina, USA, on the Reedy River, near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, 153 km/95 mi northwest of Columbia; population (2000) 56,000. It is a major textile-manufacturing centre; other industries include electronics, computer components, and robotics, as well as lumber and chemicals.

First settled in 1776, Greenville was chartered in 1831 and incorporated as a city in 1907.

Greenville

Town and port on the coast of Liberia, 250 km/155 mi southeast of Monrovia, at the mouth of the River Sinoe; population (2001 est) 13,000. Local industries include forestry, with sawmills and plywood production plants located near the port.

Greenville

City, seat of Pitt County, eastern North Carolina, USA, on the Tar River; 117 km/73mi southeast of Raleigh; population (2000) 60,500. It is the commercial centre of a rich agricultural area producing tobacco, peanuts, soybeans, corn, livestock, and poultry. Its industries include tobacco and food processing, and the production of pharmaceuticals, textiles, boats, plastic items, forklift trucks, and timber. It is the site of East Carolina University (1907) and a community college. Its growth from a small market town followed the arrival of the railway in 1889 and the establishment of a tobacco market in 1891.

The city, founded in 1771, was first called Martinsborough, but in 1786 was renamed Greenesville (later Greenville) after Gen Nathanael Greene, a hero of the American Revolution.