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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.

Huanning County, a subordinate county of Yuxi City, Yunnan Province, is located on the southern edge of the lake basin area of the central Yunnan plateau and belongs to the Zhongshan type landform. It is bordered by Maile County in the east, Jianshui County in the south, Tonghai County and Jiangchuan County in the west, Chengjiang County and Yiliang County in the north. The territory is 34 km wide from east to west, 59 km from north to south, with a total area of 1313 square kilometers, with a mountain area of 89%. It is located between 23 °59'N and 24 °34 °N and 102 °49'E to 103 °09'E. the terrain is high in the northwest, low in the southeast, narrow in east and west, long in the north and south, undulating mountains and mountains, hills, basins and valleys interlaced with "two ridges and two grooves". The larger basins are Ningzhou Dam and Panxi Dam. The main rivers are Nanpan River, Qinglong River, Haikou River, Longdong River and Huaxi River, all of which belong to the Pearl River system.
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