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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.

Fuping County, which belongs to Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, is located in the transitional zone between Guanzhong Plain and Northern Shaanxi Plateau in the middle of Shaanxi Province. It is bordered by Pucheng County and Weinan City in the east, Lintong District and Yanliang District in the south, Yaozhou District in Tongchuan City in the west, Sanyuan County in Xianyang City and Yintai District in Tongchuan City in the north. It is between 108 °57 east longitude 109 °26 km east longitude and 34 °42 km north latitude, 35 °06 'north latitude, 47 km from north to south and 34 km from east to west, with a total area of 1242 square kilometers. Fuping County gets its name from the meaning of "affluence and peace". It is one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization. as early as the ancient times when human civilization was still ignorant, the first ancestor of the Chinese nation, the Yellow Emperor, used the bronze of Shouyang to cast it on the top of Nanjingshan, and when Dayu ruled the world, he cast nine tripods, which symbolized the supreme power.
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