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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.

Shanwei City, referred to as Shancheng District, belongs to Shanwei City, Guangdong Province, located on the southeast coast of Guangdong Province, bordering the South China Sea to the south, Heyuan and Meizhou to the north, Shantou and Chaozhou to the east, Huizhou and Shenzhen to the west, and adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao. It is 160 kilometers east of Shantou and 120 kilometers west of Shenzhen, and the waterway is only 81 nautical miles away from Hong Kong. It is an important channel connecting eastern Guangdong, the Pearl River Delta and Hong Kong and Macao. It is one of the important central cities in the coastal areas of eastern Guangdong. It has unique geographical advantages and profound development potential. Shanwei City has a long history, since ancient times, there have been ancestors living here, better retain the essence of the Central Plains culture, Chaoshan culture, ou Yue culture. In March 2019, it was on the list of the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization districts and counties.
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