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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.

Xihe County belongs to Longnan City, Gansu Province, located in the southeast of Gansu Province, the northern end of Longnan City, because of the ancient West and the state and the county name. In the Western Han Dynasty, he bought Wudu County in Luoyu (now Luoyu Town), Qiu Chi State in the two Jin dynasties, South Qinzhou in Luoyu in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and changed it into a state in the Western Wei Dynasty. After many changes, Minzhou was changed to Xihe Prefecture in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Xihe Prefecture became a county in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. Xihe County has jurisdiction over 16 towns and 4 townships, covering an area of 1861 square kilometers and a total population of 437633 (2015). Xihe County is located in the south of the West Qinling Mountains and the upper reaches of the Jialing River system in the Yangtze River Basin. It is a warm temperate semi-humid climate with four distinct seasons. Xihe County is known as the "precious rehabilitation zone". The natural resources are mainly represented by antimony ore, lead-zinc ore and Pinellia ternata and Zanthoxylum bungeanum.
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