The township is a part of the Greenville, North Carolina metropolitan area located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region.

It includes the census-designated place of Belvoir, North Carolina.

Belvoir is located at latitude 35.708 and longitude -77.465.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 55.2 square miles (142.9 km2), of which 54.7 square miles (141.8 km2) is land and 0.39 square miles (1.0 km2), or 0.72%, is water.

The racial makeup of the town was 30.7% White, 51.5% African American, 0.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.4% Asian, 0.3% Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, 13.5% from some other race, and 3.1% from two or more races.