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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.

Yuzhou City, referred to as "Jun", in ancient times known as "Xiayi", "Yangzhai", "Junzhou", Henan Province under the jurisdiction of county-level cities. Yuzhou City, with a total area of 1461 square kilometers and a central urban area of 114square kilometers, is located in the middle of Henan Province and is the central city on the southern edge of the Central Plains urban agglomeration. at the end of 2016, Yuzhou has a total population of 1.29 million and a resident population of 470000. Yuzhou is one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation, the capital of the Xia Dynasty, the first slave dynasty in China, the only producing area of Jun porcelain, one of the five famous porcelain in China, and one of the four distribution centers of traditional Chinese medicine in the Ming and Qing dynasties. It is known as "Xia Capital", "Jun Capital" and "Medicine Capital". It was named as the first batch of famous historical and cultural cities in Henan Province in 2011 and the "hometown of Chinese Dayu Culture" in 2007.
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