Eden is a city in Rockingham County in the U.S. state of North Carolina and is ration of the Greensboro-High Point Metropolitan Statistical Area of the Piedmont Triad metro region. As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,405. From the late nineteenth century through much of the 20th, the city was a middle of textile mills and manufacturing. The city was incorporated in 1967 through the consolidation of three towns: Leaksville, Spray, and Draper.

Eden is located at 36°30′23″N 79°44′42″W / 36.50639°N 79.74500°W / 36.50639; -79.74500 (36.506434, -79.745092). The Smith and the Dan River have their confluence on the south side of Eden. The Dan River flows along Eden’s southern border while the Smith River flows from the north bisecting the city upon its route to meet the Dan River. Greensboro is 36 miles (58 kilometers) to the south, Reidsville is 15 mi (24 km) southeast via NC 14 High Point is 45 miles (72 km) south and Danville, Virginia is 26 mi (42 km) northeast of the city.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total Place of 15.2 square miles (39 km), of which, 15.0 square miles (39 km²) of it is estate and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km) of it (1.12%) is water.

By the mid-eighteenth century, the territory of present-day Eden was within a 70,000-acre (280 km) estate owned by William Byrd II, a planter of Virginia and North Carolina. He originally called his estate “The Land of Eden”.