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Greater Raleigh Metropolitan Area is a metropolitan area in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. As of 2011 the region had a population of 2,166,144, including the Raleigh-Durham-Cary Combined Statistical Area.
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Education
Public secondary education in the Triangle is similar to that of the majority of the state of North Carolina, in which there are county-wide school systems (the exception is Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools within Orange County but apart from Orange County Schools). The Wake County Public School System, which includes the cities of Raleigh and Cary, is the largest school system in the state of North Carolina and the 18th largest in the United States, officially recording an enrollment of 139,599 students on the 20th day of the 2009-10 school year. Other larger systems in the region include Durham Public Schools (about 33,000 students) and rapidly growing Johnston County Schools (about 31,000 students). Nash-Rocky Mount Public Schools (about 18,563 students)
Combined Statistical Area
The CSA is a 14-county region in Piedmont of North Carolina with a population of 2,116,144.