• Raleigh
  • City of Chishui

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.

Chishui, a county-level city in Guizhou Province, administered by Zunyi City, is located in the northwest of Guizhou Province, in the middle and lower reaches of the Chishui River, between longitude 105 °36'E and latitude 28 °15'N, bordering Xishui County, Guizhou Province in the southeast and Gulin, Xuyong and Hejiang counties in Sichuan Province in the northwest. It is 225km away from Zunyi, 377km from Guiyang, 172km from Chongqing, 293km from Chengdu and 40km from Luzhou, with a total area of 1852 square kilometers. In 2018, Chishui has jurisdiction over 3 subdistrict offices, 11 towns and 3 townships. In 2016, the city had a permanent population of 244100 for half a year. In 2016, the city's gross domestic product (GDP) was 9.614 billion yuan, with a per capita GDP of 39548 yuan. Successively won the excellent tourist city in China,
Travel Guides In City of Chishui
Travel Notes In City of Chishui