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Raleigh

The capital of and the largest city of the , Raleigh is the primary political and economic driver of the metro area. Indeed, business and politics are the main draws to Raleigh, which lacks the more trendy feel or active arts scene of or to the west.
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  • Type: City with 432,000 residents
  • Description: city in and state capital of North Carolina, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Raleigh, N.C.”, “Raleigh, NC”, “Raleigh, North Carolina”, and “Wake Court House”
  • Postal codes: 27601-27617, 27619-27629, 27634-27636, 27640, 27650, 27656, 27658, 27661, 27668, 27675, 27676, 27690, 27695, and 27697-27699
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Places of Interest

Highlights include North Carolina State Capitol and North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

Public building
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The is the former seat of the legislature of the U.S. state of which housed all of the state's government until 1888.

Museum
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The is a natural history museum in Raleigh, North Carolina. The museum is the oldest in the state, and the largest natural history museum in the Southeastern United States.

Railway station
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is an intermodal transit station in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Train service began the morning of July 10, 2018. Its main building serves as an Amtrak train station, while a future adjacent building will serve as the bus terminus for GoTriangle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Historic Oakwood and Boylan Heights.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, , on the National Register of Historic Places, that is known for its Cemetery and many Victorian and Second Empire houses.

Neighborhood
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is one of eight historic neighborhoods surrounding downtown Raleigh, North Carolina. Developed in the early 20th century it was one of the earliest planned suburbs in the city.

Neighborhood
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is a historic home and garden and national historic district located at Raleigh, North Carolina. The main house is a modest 19th century turreted late Victorian period frame cottage, with a Colonial Revival style studio wing and kitchen and dining porch added in 1937.

Raleigh

Latitude
35.7721° or 35° 46′ 20″ north
Longitude
-78.6386° or 78° 38′ 19″ west
Population
432,000
Elevation
315 feet (96 metres)
IATA airport code
RDU
United Nations Location Code
US RAG
Open location code
8773Q9C6+RH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158618991
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4487042
Wiki­data ID
Q41087
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Raleigh” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Raleigh”
  • Albanian: “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • Albanian: “Raleigh”
  • Amharic: “ራሊ”
  • Arabic: “رالي، كارولاينا الشماليه”
  • Arabic: “رالي، كارولينا الشمالية”
  • Arabic: “رالي، نورث كارولاينا”
  • Arabic: “رالي، نورث كارولينا”
  • Arabic: “رالي”
  • Arabic: “راليغ، كارولاينا الشمالية”
  • Arabic: “رولي، كارولاينا الشمالية”
  • Arabic: “رولي، كارولينا الشمالية”
  • Arabic: “رولي، نورث كارولينا”
  • Aragonese: “Raleigh”
  • Armenian: “Ռոլի”
  • Asturian: “Raleigh”
  • Azerbaijani: “Roli”
  • Balinese: “Raleigh, Carolina Kalér”
  • Bambara: “Raleigh”
  • Basque: “Raleigh”
  • Belarusian: “Ралі”
  • Belarusian: “Ролі”
  • Bengali: “র‌্যালি”
  • Bengali: “র‍্যালি”
  • Bislama: “Raleigh, Not Carolina”
  • Bislama: “Raleigh”
  • Bosnian: “Raleigh”
  • Breton: “Raleigh”
  • Bulgarian: “Ралеи”
  • Bulgarian: “Ралей”
  • Bulgarian: “Рали”
  • Bulgarian: “Роли”
  • Catalan: “Raleigh”
  • Cebuano: “Raleigh”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕاڵی، کارۆلینای باکوور”
  • Chavacano: “Raleigh”
  • Chechen: “Рали”
  • Chinese: “Raleigh”
  • Chinese: “洛利”
  • Chinese: “洛麗”
  • Chinese: “罗利”
  • Chinese: “羅利”
  • Chinese: “羅里”
  • Cornish: “Raleigh, Karolina Gledh”
  • Cornish: “Raleigh”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Roli”
  • Czech: “Raleigh”
  • Dagbani: “Raleigh”
  • Danish: “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • Danish: “Raleigh”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Raleigh”
  • Dutch: “Raleigh”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “رالى”
  • Esperanto: “Raleigh (Norda Karolino)”
  • Esperanto: “Raleigh”
  • Esperanto: “Rolio”
  • Estonian: “Raleigh”
  • Faroese: “Raleigh”
  • Finnish: “Raleigh”
  • French: “Raleigh”
  • Galician: “Raleigh, Carolina do Norte”
  • Galician: “Raleigh”
  • Georgian: “რალი”
  • Georgian: “როლი”
  • German: “Raleigh, NC”
  • German: “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • German: “Raleigh”
  • Gilaki: “رالی (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
  • Gilaki: “رالی”
  • Gothic: “𐍂𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹”
  • Greek: “Ράλεϊ”
  • Gujarati: “રેલે”
  • Haitian: “Raleigh, Kawolin dinò”
  • Hausa: “Raleigh N.C”
  • Hausa: “Raleigh”
  • Hebrew: “ראלי”
  • Hindi: “रैली”
  • Hungarian: “Raleigh”
  • Icelandic: “Raleigh”
  • Ido: “Raleigh, Nordal Karolina”
  • Ido: “Raleigh”
  • Iloko: “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • Iloko: “Raleigh”
  • Inari Sami: “Raleigh”
  • Indonesian: “Raleigh, Carolina Utara”
  • Indonesian: “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • Indonesian: “Raleigh”
  • Interlingua: “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • Interlingua: “Raleigh”
  • Interlingue: “Raleigh”
  • Irish: “Raleigh, Carolina Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • Irish: “Raleigh”
  • Italian: “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • Italian: “Raleigh”
  • Japanese: “ローリー”
  • Kannada: “ರೇಲಿ”
  • Kikuyu: “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • Kirghiz: “Роли”
  • Komering: “Raleigh”
  • Korean: “롤리”
  • Kurdish: “Raleigh”
  • Ladin: “Raleigh”
  • Latvian: “Raleigh”
  • Latvian: “Raleja”
  • Latvian: “Reilija”
  • Latvian: “Roli”
  • Ligurian: “Raleigh”
  • Lithuanian: “Rolis”
  • Lombard: “Raleigh”
  • Low German: “Raleigh”
  • Lule Sami: “Raleigh”
  • Luxembourgish: “Raleigh”
  • Macedonian: “Роли”
  • Malagasy: “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • Malagasy: “Raleigh”
  • Malay: “Raleigh, Carolina Utara”
  • Malay: “Raleigh”
  • Malayalam: “റാലെ, വടക്കൻ കരോലിന”
  • Marathi: “रॅले, उत्तर कॅरोलिना”
  • Marathi: “रॅले”
  • Marathi: “रेली, नॉर्थ कॅरोलिना”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Raleigh”
  • Moksha: “Роли”
  • Mongolian: “Рали”
  • Navajo: “Chéchʼil Ńtʼiʼí”
  • Neapolitan: “Raleigh”
  • Newari: “रेली, नर्द क्यारोलिना”
  • Newari: “रेली”
  • Northern Sami: “Raleigh”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Raleigh”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Raleigh”
  • Norwegian: “Raleigh”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Raleigh”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Raleah”
  • Ossetian: “Роли”
  • Pali: “र्यालेइ”
  • Pampanga: “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • Pampanga: “Raleigh”
  • Papiamento: “Raleigh”
  • Persian: “رالی”
  • Piemontese: “Raleigh”
  • Pite Sami: “Raleigh”
  • Polish: “Raleigh, Karolina Północna”
  • Polish: “Raleigh”
  • Portuguese: “Raleigh, Carolina do Norte”
  • Portuguese: “Raleigh”
  • Quechua: “Raleigh”
  • Romanian: “Raleigh, Carolina de Nord”
  • Romanian: “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • Romanian: “Raleigh”
  • Russian: “Рали (Северная Каролина)”
  • Russian: “Рали”
  • Russian: “Роли (Северная Каролина)”
  • Russian: “Роли”
  • Samogitian: “Rolės”
  • Sanskrit: “रालेय्”
  • Sardinian: “Raleigh”
  • Scots: “Raleigh”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Raleigh, Carolina a Tuath”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Raleigh”
  • Serbian: “Raleigh”
  • Serbian: “Рали”
  • Serbian: “Роли”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Raleigh”
  • Sicilian: “Raleigh”
  • Sinhala: “රැලේ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Raleigh”
  • Slovak: “Raleigh”
  • Slovenian: “Raleigh, Severna Karolina”
  • Slovenian: “Raleigh”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رالی، قوزئی کارولینا”
  • Southern Sami: “Raleigh”
  • Spanish: “Raleigh (Carolina del Norte)”
  • Spanish: “Raleigh”
  • Swahili: “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • Swahili: “Raleigh”
  • Swedish: “Raleigh, NC”
  • Swedish: “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • Swedish: “Raleigh”
  • Tagalog: “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • Tagalog: “Raleigh”
  • Talysh: “Roli”
  • Tamil: “ராலீ”
  • Tatar: “Роли”
  • Telugu: “రాలీ”
  • Thai: “ราลี”
  • Thai: “ราห์เล”
  • Thai: “แรลี”
  • Turkish: “Raleigh, Kuzey Karolina”
  • Turkish: “Raleigh”
  • Ukrainian: “Ралей”
  • Ukrainian: “Ралі”
  • Ukrainian: “Ролі”
  • Ume Sami: “Raleigh”
  • Urdu: “رالی، شمالی کیرولینا”
  • Urdu: “رالی”
  • Venetian: “Raleigh”
  • Vietnamese: “Raleigh, Bắc Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • Vietnamese: “Raleigh”
  • Volapük: “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • Volapük: “Raleigh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Raleigh”
  • Welsh: “Raleigh, Gogledd Carolina”
  • Welsh: “Raleigh”
  • Western Frisian: “Raleigh”
  • Western Mari: “Роли”
  • Western Panjabi: “رالی”
  • Western Panjabi: “رالیغ”
  • Wu Chinese: “罗利（北卡罗来纳州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “罗利”
  • Yoruba: “Raleigh, North Carolina”
  • Yoruba: “Raleigh”
  • Yue Chinese: “羅利”
  • “Raleigh”
  • “Rolis”

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