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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.

Pinghe County (ancient Pinghe County, Zhangzhou Capital), under the jurisdiction of Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, is located in the southwest of Zhangzhou, connected with Fujian and Guangdong provinces and eight counties, known as the "thoroughfare of eight counties". There are Fuzhao Expressway, Yunping Expressway (under construction), 207 Provincial Highway, 309 Provincial Highway and other trunk lines. In ancient times, Pinghe was the city of Yangzhou, Zhou was the land of seven Min, and Ming Zhengde bought a county in the thirteenth year of Ming Zhengde (1518), meaning "Keping and human harmony". The key hometown of overseas Chinese and the ancestral place of Taiwan compatriots in Fujian Province is not only an economically underdeveloped county, but also a coastal economic open county; Pinghe County is also one of the key hometown of overseas Chinese in Fujian Province, but also one of the important ancestral places of Taiwan compatriots; the former central Soviet area county and the province's key old base county. Pinghe County has an area of 2328.6 square kilometers, ranking first in Zhangzhou. Under the jurisdiction of 16 townships (farms), 240
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