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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.

Shimian County, which belongs to Ya'an City, Sichuan Province, is located in the eastern part of the Hengduan Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the middle reaches of the Dadu River, the southwest of Ya'an City, and its geographical coordinates are 101 °55 in longitude and 102 °34 in longitude and 29 °32 in latitude. Shimian County has a total area of 2678 square kilometers. It belongs to the mountain climate with mid-latitude subtropical monsoon climate as the base belt, with concentrated summer rain, more night rain, less storms and no autumn continuous rain. Shimian County has jurisdiction over 1 street, 1 town, 5 townships and 10 ethnic townships, and the county government is stationed in the streets of Mian City. As of 2018, the total registered population of the county is 128800. In the thirteenth year of Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty (1833), the soil was changed and the land of the fourteen fortresses was placed in Shunhe Township. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was "ready to establish a constitution". Shunhe became an autonomous township of its own, all on the north bank.
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