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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.

Shandong Province, a coastal province in East China, referred to as Lu, is the capital of Jinan. It is located in the east coast of China, between latitude 34 °22.9 °mi 38 °24.01 °N and longitude 114 °47.5 °Mo 122 °42.3'E. it borders Hebei, Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces from north to south. The central part of Shandong Province is mountainous, the southwest and northwest are low-lying and flat, the eastern part is gently hilly, the eastern part is Shandong Peninsula, the western and northern parts belong to the North China Plain, and the central and southern part is mountainous and hilly, forming the landforms with mountains and hills as the skeleton, plain and basin crisscross ring, including mountains, hills, platforms, basins, plains, lakes and other types. It spans the Huaihe River, Yellow River, Haihe River, Xiaoqing River and Jiaodong five major river systems; it belongs to the warm temperate monsoon climate. As of
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