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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.

Dechang County, which belongs to Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, lies between 101o54-#39;-102 °29-#39;, north latitude 27 °05-#39;-27 °36-#39;, covering an area of 2284 square kilometers. It is located in the Anning River Valley, the eastern edge of the Kangzang-Tibet Plateau in the Hengduan Mountains, adjoining Huili and Miyi County in the south, Yalong River and Yanyuan County in the west, Xichang City in the north, Luoji Mountain ridge and Puge County in the east, and Ningnan County in the southeast, with a total area of 2288 square kilometers. Dechang system has a history of more than 2000 years, and it is the necessary place of the southern Silk Road "reaching Beijing in the north and Mengzhao in Nantong". It contains rich "Phoenix culture", "nine palaces and eighteen temples", Buddhism and Taoism culture, Lisu people.
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