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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.

Xuancheng, known as Wanling and Xuanzhou in ancient times, is a prefecture-level city in Anhui Province, located in the southeast of Anhui Province, bordered by Hangzhou and Huzhou in Zhejiang Province to the east, Huangshan in the south, Chizhou and Wuhu in the west and northwest, Maanshan in the province and Nanjing, Changzhou and Wuxi in Jiangsu Province to the north and northeast. It is located on the western waist line of the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou Triangle. It is a member city of Nanjing metropolitan area and the central city of G60 Kechuang Corridor. The city of Wanjiang takes the first wing of the demonstration area to undertake industrial transfer, which is the forward position for the central region to undertake the industrial and capital transfer in the eastern region, the central city of Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and an important channel for the southeast coast to communicate with the interior. Xuancheng is located in the south of the Yangtze River, which has been said to be "the combination of the south and the north" since ancient times. Since the establishment of the county in the Western Han Dynasty, it has a history of more than 2000 years. Xuancheng has been since the Western Han Dynasty.
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