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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.

Pingyuan County is located in the northwest of Shandong Province, belonging to Dezhou City, bordering Linyi County and Yucheng City in the east and southeast, Wucheng and Xiajin in the west and southwest, Gaotang in the south and Decheng and Lingcheng in the north. Pingyuan County is located in the northwest plain of Shandong Province in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, with flat terrain and slow tilt from southwest to northeast. The climate belongs to the continental monsoon climate of the north temperate zone, with four distinct seasons and sufficient sunshine. The administrative area covers an area of 1047 square kilometers, with a total population of 470000. It has jurisdiction over 8 towns, 2 townships, 2 streets and 1 economic development zone. Pingyuan County is the hometown of "grain production base", "Beijing-Tianjin vegetable park", "strong county of animal husbandry", "big county of live pigs", "hometown of pigeons", Zhang Quanjing, an expert in the history of party building, Ren Jiyu, the late master of Sinology, Deng Youmei, a famous writer, and so on.
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