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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.

Tianmen, known as Jingling in ancient times, is a municipality of Hubei Province, an important member of Wuhan City Circle and the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and the main node cities in the Han River Basin, located in the middle of Hubei Province and the north of Jianghan Plain, reaching Dahongshan in the north, Hanjiang River in the south and Wuhan in the east. In the fourth year of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty (1726), Tianmen Mountain was named "Tianmen". In 1994, the State Council approved Tianmen City to be directly under the jurisdiction of Hubei Province. In 2018, the city's resident population was 1.2723 million. Tianmen is an important birthplace of world tea culture, the hometown of Lu Yu, the largest hometown of overseas Chinese in the interior, and the hometown of steamed vegetables in China. It is a national sanitary city and a national garden city. It ranks among the top 100 county economies in the country and has been rated as one of the top 100 county economies for 12 consecutive years.
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