Lands of America recently had $2 billion in land for sale for sale in the Tar Heel State. This represents a total of 170,876 acres of land for sale in North Carolina. The most expensive property listed for sale on Lands of America recently was $49 million, though the median price for farms, ranches and other land for sale in North Carolina came in at $221,260. The average price of land, homesites and other rural acreage for sale in North Carolina was $442,683. There was 1,646 acres of sold land in North Carolina recorded in May 2018 through the Lands of America sales program. This reflects a 12 percent decrease in sales activity over the previous month. The total value of this sold land and rural real estate was $9.4 million. North Carolina offers year-round opportunities to fish and hunt, including prime fly-fishing in over 3, 000 miles of mountain trout streams in the western third of the state. Throw in Atlantic Ocean deep-sea fishing and some two million acres of game lands open to hunters and anglers and trappers-and you've got one serious outdoor sports-obsessed state. As befits a state with excellent hunting for big and small game like deer, waterfowl and wild turkey, hunting land was the most common type of land for sale in North Carolina. Of the 100 counties in North Carolina, Clay County had the most land and rural real estate for sale. In terms of size, North Carolina is the country's 28th-largest state, covering an area of 53,821 square miles (34 million acres). In its entirety, 48,618 square miles (90 percent) is land, while the remaining 5,201 square miles comprises water.