State Slogan: Remember the Civil War? We Didn't Actually Surrender
Nickname: Palmetto State
State Flower: Carolina jessamine
Motto: While I Breathe, I Hope
South Carolina is bounded to the north by North Carolina; to the south and west by Georgia, located across the Savannah River; and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. South Carolina is composed of four geographic areas, whose boundaries roughly parallel the northeast/southwest Atlantic coastline. |