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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.

Yantan District belongs to Zigong City, Sichuan Province, named after the district government stationed in Yantan Town. It was founded in 1953 and is located at the south gate of Zigong City. It is the hometown of martyr Lu Deming, commander of the Autumn Harvest uprising, and is one of the four municipal districts of Zigong City, the salt capital of the millennium. 12 kilometers away from Zigong City. The north is bordered by Da'an District, covering an area of 467.99k. The outline of the area is full of triangles, the landform is mainly hilly, the terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, with an average elevation of 300 li 400 meters. Belongs to the gentle slope low hill, the gentle slope middle hill landform type, does not have the shape mountain range, suitable for ploughing area is large. At the end of 2011, the area of cultivated land along the beach was 258700 mu, including 163100 mu of paddy field, 95700 mu of dry land and 0.77 mu of per capita arable land.
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