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Raleigh (/ˈrɑːli/; RAH-lee) is the capital city of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States. It is the second-most populous city in North Carolina, after Charlotte. Raleigh is the tenth-most populous city in the Southeast, the 41st-most populous city in the U.S., and the largest city of the Research Triangle metro area. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees, which line the streets in the heart of the city. The city covers a land area of 147.6 sq mi (382 km2). The U.S. Census Bureau counted the city's population as 474,069 in the 2020 census. It is one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States. The city of Raleigh is named after Sir Walter Raleigh, who established the lost Roanoke Colony in present-day Dare County.

Raleigh is home to North Carolina State University (NC State) and is part of the Research Triangle together with Durham (home of Duke University and North Carolina Central University) and Chapel Hill (home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). The name of the Research Triangle (often shortened to the "Triangle") originated after the 1959 creation of Research Triangle Park (RTP), located in Durham and Wake counties, among the three cities and universities. The Triangle encompasses the U.S. Census Bureau's Raleigh-Durham-Cary Combined Statistical Area (CSA), which had an estimated population of 2,037,430 in 2013. The Raleigh Metropolitan Statistical Area had an estimated population of 1,390,785 in 2019.

Most of Raleigh is located within Wake County, with a small portion extending into Durham County. The towns of Cary, Morrisville, Garner, Clayton, Wake Forest, Apex, Holly Springs, Fuquay-Varina, Knightdale, Wendell, Zebulon, and Rolesville are some of Raleigh's primary nearby suburbs and satellite towns.

Baiyin District belongs to Baiyin City, Gansu Province. Baiyin gets its name because of the mine and because of the enterprise area. Located in central Gansu, western Baiyin City, the middle upper reaches of the Yellow River, located in the northwest edge of the Longxi Loess Plateau, the general trend of topography is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, with an average elevation of 1946.5 meters. It borders Gaolan County, Lanzhou City in the west, the Yellow River in the south, Qingcheng Town in Yuzhong County and Pingbao Township in Jingyuan County, Liuchuan Township in Jingyuan County in the east, and Zhongquan Township in Jingtai County in the north. With a total area of 1372 square kilometers, it has jurisdiction over 5 streets, 3 towns and 2 townships. In 2017, the registered population of Baiyin District was 290381. In 2017, Baiyin District achieved a GDP of 19.957 billion yuan, an increase of 2.6 percent over the same period last year. In July 2019, it was selected as the pilot county (district) of the national intellectual property strong county project.
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