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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.

Minle County, which belongs to Zhangye City, Gansu Province, is located at the northern foot of Qilian Mountain, the middle of Hexi Corridor, the southeast of Zhangye City, bordering Shandan and Yongchang counties in the east, Qilian County and Menyuan County in Qinghai Province in the south, Yugu Autonomous County in Sunan in the southwest, and Gansu District in Zhangye City in the west and northwest. The geographical coordinates are between 100 °22 °59 "~ 101 °13 °9" east longitude and 37 °56'19 "~ 38 °48" 17 "north latitude. It is 73.8km wide from east to west and 95.4km long from north to south, with a total area of 3678 square kilometers (2013). With a population of 230800 (2013), Minle County achieved a GDP of 1.658 billion yuan in 2007. Minle County has Haichao Lake Ecological Resort, Bandukou Ecological Leisure Tourism area and Nuniu.
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