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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.

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Tianzhu County, located in the east of Guizhou Province, is under the jurisdiction of Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture. Tianzhu County is located in eastern Guizhou and the lower reaches of Qingshui River, bordering Xinzhuang County, Jingzhou County, Huitong County, Zhijiang County and Jianhe County, Jinping County and Sansui County of Guizhou Province. In 2013, Tianzhu County achieved a GDP of 4.91 billion yuan, financial revenue of 654 million yuan, investment in fixed assets of 7.098 billion yuan, per capita disposable income of urban residents 19035 yuan, and per capita net income of farmers 5601 yuan. Tianzhu County specialties are: Tianzhu navel orange, Tianzhu local duck and so on. Famous figures are: Wang Tianpei, Yang Changhuai and so on. September 25, 2018, won the honor of "2018 e-commerce into the rural comprehensive demonstration county" of the Ministry of Commerce.
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