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Research Triangle

The Research Triangle comprises the anchoring cities of Raleigh (the state capital), Durham and Chapel Hill, and is located in the Piedmont of the Appalachian Range in of North Carolina, United States of America. (Raleigh is at the fall line at the Piedmont's eastern edge.) It has a metropolitan population of 1.692 million.1 Four hundred four thousand live in Raleigh, 228 thousand in Durham and 57 thousand in Chapel Hill.2 The tallest building in Raleigh in early 2014 was the 32 story RBC Plaza (2008). Another famous building is the North Carolina State Capitol, completed in 1840 and housing the governor and lieutenant governor's offices.3

External references

Skyline of Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Historical maps

map showing part of the United States of America, 2000 CE

Footnotes

1. 2013 estimate from world-gazetteer.com, accessed 2/6/2013.
2. 2012 estimate from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_North_Carolina, accessed 3/10/2014. Chapel Hill is not the third most populous city in this metropolitan area.
3. Information about buildings is from emporis.com, accessed 3/10/2014. Until 1963 the State Capitol building also housed the General Assembly.