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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.

Zhangzhou, under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province, is one of the cities on the west coast of the Taiwan Strait. China's "pastoral city, ecological city", ecological competitiveness ranks in the forefront of Fujian, the national Minnan cultural and ecological reserve. Zhangzhou is located in the "South Fujian Golden Triangle". The central urban areas are Xiangcheng District, Longwen District, Zhangzhou Taiwan Investment Zone and Zhangzhou High-tech Industrial Development Zone. It is an important hub area for the intersection of Xiamen-Shenzhen Railway, Longxia Railway, Eagle-Xiamen Railway and Fuzhou-Xiamen High-speed Railway, and a national regional circulation node city in China. There are many typhoons in summer and autumn in Zhangzhou. It is the famous "hometown of fish, rice, flowers and fruits". Zhangzhou Plain is the largest plain in Fujian. Known as "seaside Zou Lu", he was selected as the Forbes Top 100 Commercial City in China in 2014.
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