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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.

Dazhu County, which belongs to Dazhou City, Sichuan Province, is located in the east of Sichuan Province and the south of Dazhou City. It spans 106 °59 miles east longitude and 107 degrees 32 miles north latitude, 31 °00 degrees north latitude, Liangping District and Dianjiang County of Chongqing City in the east, Linshui County in the south, Guang'an District and qu County in the west, and Dachuan District in the north. It has been included in the Qinba Mountain Poverty Alleviation and Development Zone, the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone Chongqing Guangda Economic Development Zone, and the northeast Sichuan urban agglomeration. Dazhu County got its name from "more bamboo". Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty saw the first year (AD 700) to buy the county; known as "the hometown of Ramie in China", "the first County of Chinese Toona", "the Capital of mash in China", "the hometown of glutinous Rice in China", "the hometown of Green Bamboo in East Sichuan"; there is Wufengshan National Forest Park, and there are ancient official post roads that started in the pre-Qin Dynasty and flourished in the three Kingdoms.
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