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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.

Shaanxi, referred to as "Shaanxi" or "Qin", the provincial administrative region of the people's Republic of China, the provincial capital Xi'an, is located in the hinterland of China, the middle reaches of the Yellow River, Shanxi and Henan to the east, Ningxia and Gansu to the west, Sichuan, Chongqing and Hubei to the south and Inner Mongolia to the north, between longitude 105 °29 and latitude 31 °42, with a total area of 205600 square kilometers. China's longitude and latitude reference point, geodetic origin, and Beijing time National time Service Center are located in the province. The topography of Shaanxi Province is high in the north and low in the middle, and is composed of plateaus, mountains, plains and basins, among which the Loess Plateau accounts for 40% of the province's land area, straddling the two major river systems of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and across three climatic belts. The Great Wall in northern Shaanxi belongs to the mid-temperate monsoon climate, Guanzhong and
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