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Research Triangle
The Research Triangle, commonly known simply as The Triangle, is a Piedmont region of North Carolina in the United States, anchored by three major research universities: North Carolina State University, Duke University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, located in the cities of Raleigh and Durham and the city of Chapel Hill. The nine-county region, officially called the Raleigh-Durham-Cary Combined Statistical Area (CSA), includes the Raleigh-Cary and Durham-Chapel Hill Metropolitan Statistical Areas and the Henderson Micropolitan Statistical Area.
According to a 2019 census estimate, the population was 2,079,687, making it the second-largest combined statistical area in the state of North Carolina, behind Charlotte CSA. The Raleigh-Durham television market spans a broader 24-county area that includes Fayetteville, North Carolina, and has a population of 2,726,000 people.
The name “Triangle” solidified into the public consciousness in the 1950s with the creation of Research Triangle Park, home to numerous technology companies and businesses. Although the name is now used to refer to the geographic region, “the triangle” originally referred to the universities, whose research facilities and qualified staff they provide have historically been a major draw for businesses in the region.
Most of the triangle is part of North Carolina’s 1st, 2nd, and 4th Congressional Districts.
The region is sometimes confused with The Triad, a North Carolina region that borders and immediately west of the triangle includes Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point.
Raleigh – Durham
Raleigh is the capital of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States. Raleigh is known as the “City of Oaks” due to the large number of oaks that line the streets in the heart of the city. The city has an area of 382 km2. The US Census Bureau estimated the city’s population to be 474,069 as of July 1, 2019. It is one of the fastest growing cities in the country. The city of Raleigh is named after Walter Raleigh, who founded the lost settlement of Roanoke in what is now Dare County.
Raleigh is home to North Carolina State University (NC State) and, along with Durham (home to Duke University and North Carolina Central University) and Chapel Hill (home to the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill), is part of the Research Triangle. The name of the Research Triangle (often abbreviated as “Triangle”) arose after the establishment in 1959 of the Research Triangle Park (RTP), located in Durham and Wake counties, between the three cities and their universities. The triangle includes the United States 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 1,390,785 residents in 2019.
Most of Raleigh is in Wake County, with a very small portion extending into County Durham. The cities of Cary, Morrisville, Garner, Clayton, Wake Forest, Apex, Holly Springs, Fuquay-Varina, Knightdale, Wendell, Zebulon, and Rolesville are some of the major nearby suburbs and satellite cities of Raleigh.
Raleigh is an early example in the United States of a planned city. After the Revolutionary War, when the United States gained independence, it was chosen as the seat of the state capital in 1788 and incorporated as such in 1792. The city was originally designed in a grid pattern with the State Capitol of North Carolina at Union Square downtown. During the American Civil War, the city was saved from any major battle. It fell into the hands of the Union in the final days of the war and struggled with the economic difficulties of the postwar era associated with rebuilding labor markets, overdependence on agriculture, and the social unrest of the Reconstruction era. . After the creation of the Research Triangle Park (RTP) in 1959, several tens of thousands of science and technology jobs were created and, in the early 21st century, it became one of the fastest growing communities in the United States. Joined.