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The City of Raleigh, founded in 1792, is the second largest city in North Carolina and is situated in the heart of North Carolina’s Piedmont region, which is centered between the sandy Atlantic beaches and the Great Smoky Mountains. The City is both the county seat of Wake County and the capital of North Carolina. Raleigh covers an area of more than 144 square miles and is home to a growing and diverse population of more than 423,000 residents. Together with Chapel Hill and Durham, Raleigh forms the Research Triangle Park, which was founded in 1959 as a model for research, innovation and economic development and is now the largest research park in the nation. The metropolitan area, which encompasses Raleigh, also includes Wake, Durham, Orange, Franklin, Chatham and Johnston counties with a population of 1.6 million.

Raleigh is also home to several institutions of higher learning, including North Carolina State University, Wake Technical Community College, Meredith College, William Peace University, Shaw University and St. Augustine’s University. Raleigh is consistently recognized as one of the best communities to live, work and play.