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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.

Zhuozhou, Hebei Province under the jurisdiction of county-level cities, managed by Baoding City, is located in the northwest of North China Plain, southwest of Beijing, the gate of the south of Beijing. It faces Gu'an in the east, Laishui in the west, Beijing in the north and Gaobeidian in the south. Zhuozhou belongs to Hebei Province. Zhuozhou has a total area of 742.5 square kilometers. As of March 2019, the total registered population of Zhuozhou is 680000. On September 24, 1986, Zhuoxian County was withdrawn and Zhuozhou City was built under the jurisdiction of Zhuoxian County, which still belongs to Baoding area. Zhuozhou famous specialty products are Zhuozhou Gongmi, gold tapestry, du Kang noodles and so on. Famous figures in Zhuozhou include Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Zhao Kuangyin, Ji Daoyuan and so on. In 2008, it was approved as a "provincial historical and cultural city" by the people's Government of Hebei Province. On February 28, 2015, Hebei held a mobilization meeting on the pilot system reform of counties (cities) directly administered by the province.
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Enter the ancient county Zhuozhou in the middle of winter, and visit the Sanyi Palace and Film and Television City (Wang Zhiming)
Walk into Zhuozhou, an ancient county In the middle of winter, the sky is gloomy, and the northern villages are bleak. I came to Zhuozhou, an ancien
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