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Gastonia is a city in North Carolina, United States. It is the county seat and largest city of Gaston County and also the second largest city of the Charlotte Area, behind Charlotte. The population was 69,904 as of 2008 1(35% of the population of Gaston County). It is part of the Charlotte metropolitan area, officially designated the Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As the second-largest city (in population) in the MSA after Charlotte, Gastonia has experienced steady growth, with a population change during the 1990s (according the US Census Bureau) of more than +10%
