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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.

Changqiao District, which belongs to Suzhou City, Anhui Province, is located in the northeast of Anhui Province, bordering the three provinces of Jiangsu, Shandong and Henan. It was renamed from the former county-level Suzhou City in 1999. It is the only municipal district of Suzhou City, with a total area of 2868 square kilometers. Yuanqiao has a long history, it was the fief of the ancient "Sui Kingdom" in the Spring and Autumn period, and it was already a "gathering place of boats and cars and a thoroughfare in Kyushu" in the Qin and Han dynasties. After the opening of the "Tongji Canal" in the Sui Dynasty, it became a military town of "strangling and controlling the Huaihe River". Confucius practiced Zhou Li here; Min Ziqian, a high apprentice of Confucius and a sage of the Chinese nation, was born here; Bai Juyi grew up here until he became famous in Changan; Wang Ji, Han Yu, Su Shi, Yuan Mei and others left splendid poems; modern and modern cultural celebrities such as Mei Chunyi, Li Bairen, Yang Zaibao, Li Bingshu, and so on. This is the old uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang Daze Township.
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