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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.

Panan County, which belongs to Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, is located in the central part of Zhejiang Province (the geographical center of Zhejiang, known as "the Heart of Zhejiang"), bordering Dongyang, Xinchang, Xianju, Tiantai and other cities and counties. Within 2 hours from Hangzhou, Wenzhou and Ningbo, it belongs to the economic zone of the south wing of the Yangtze River Delta and the economic zone of central Zhejiang urban agglomeration. With a total area of 1196 square kilometers, it has jurisdiction over 2 streets, 7 towns and 5 townships with a population of 209000. Panan County was established in 1939 in the flames of the Anti-Japanese War. In 1958, the whole territory was merged into Dongyang County. In 1983, Panan County was restored. Panan is the largest Confucius settlement in the south of the Yangtze River, with two "national key cultural relic protection units" of Yushan ancient tea farm and beech stream Kong family temple and the only national medicinal plant national nature reserve-Dapanshan Nature Reserve, National 4A
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