List of North Carolina state symbols

The state of North Carolina has 42 official state emblems, as well as other designated places and events.

The majority is determined by acts of the North Carolina General Assembly and record in Chapters 144, 145, and 149 of the North Carolina General Statutes.

The first symbol was the Seal of North Carolina, which was made official in 1871.

The original seal also contained the future state motto.

Enacted by law in 2013, the newest symbols of North Carolina are the state art medium, clay; the state fossil, the megalodon teeth; the state frog, the Pine Barrens tree frog; the state marsupial, the Virginia opossum; and the state salamander, the marbled salamander.