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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.

Chaling County, which belongs to Zhuzhou City, is located in the east of Hunan Province. It extends to Changsha in the north, Guangzhou in the south, Hengyang in the west and Jiangxi in the east, covering an area of 2500 square kilometers (2013). It is located between longitude 113 °20 "113 °65" east and latitude 26 °30 "27 °7 'north. It belongs to the humid climate of subtropical monsoon. Chaling County is the only administrative county named after tea in Chinese history. Because it is located in the "shadow of the tea mountain", and the first ancestor of the Chinese nation, Yan Emperor Shennong, was buried at the end of the tea village. Because of the Southern Song Dynasty county magistrate Liu Zimai cast iron rhinoceros town river demon and has the reputation of "rhinoceros city". Chaling County is one of the six counties in the Jinggangshan revolutionary base area, and the key counties and model counties in the Hunan-Jiangxi revolutionary base area are the first red political power in China created by Mao Zedong. In August 2018, Hunan Provincial Government approved the reply.
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