Raleigh was founded in 1792 as North Carolina's capital city. It
was named for Sir Walter Raleigh, who attempted to establish the first English
colony on the shores of the New World in the 1580s. Raleigh is the only state
capital to have been planned and established by a state as the seat of state
government, and it is the largest city in a combined statistical area known as
Raleigh-Durham-Cary (the Research Triangle Region). The city's founding fathers
called Raleigh the "City of Oaks" and dedicated themselves to
maintaining the area's wooded tracts and grassy parks. In present days there are many oak trees in
Raleigh and these line the streets in the heart of the city.
Raleigh covers a land area of 142.8 square miles (370 km2
and has an estimated population of more than 430,000 people.
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