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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.

Qingyang City, Gansu Province is under the jurisdiction of prefecture-level cities, commonly known as "Longdong", is located in the easternmost part of Gansu Province, at the confluence of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia provinces, Yanan City, Shaanxi Province in the east, Jingchuan County in Gansu Province and Changwu, Bin County and Xunyi County in Shaanxi Province in the south, Yulin City in Shaanxi Province and Wuzhong City in Ningxia to the north, and Guyuan City in Ningxia to the west. Qingyang City has a total area of 27119 square kilometers and a population of 2.2666 million (at the end of 2018). It has jurisdiction over one district and seven counties, and the municipal people's government is stationed in Xifeng District. In 2018, the GDP of Qingyang City reached 70.815 billion yuan. Qingyang City is one of the birthplaces of the early agricultural civilization of the Chinese nation, the hometown of "Huanjiang pterosaur" and "Yellow River ancient statue", the land of China's "first Paleolithic", and the birthplace of Chinese traditional medicine culture.
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