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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.

Dunhua City, which belongs to Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, is the "west gate" of Yanbian Prefecture. Located in the eastern mountainous area of Jilin Province, the hinterland of Changbai Mountain, one of the node cities in the pilot area of Changjitu development and opening up, it is the largest county-level city in Jilin Province and an important transportation hub in Jilin Province. it connects Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces, four districts and nine counties and cities. Dunhua is known as the "century-old county, the ancient capital of thousands of years". It is the capital of the Bohai Sea in the Tang Dynasty, Aodong City in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the birthplace of the Manchu royal family. In 1881, a county was established and named Dunhua; in 1958, the county under the jurisdiction of the province was assigned to Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, and the county was withdrawn to set up a city in 1985. Dunhua is an excellent tourist city, a national sanitary city, a national garden city, a national model city with double support, a model collective of national unity and progress, and the name of Chinese solid wood products.
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