The Triangle and the Universities
Duke University is located in Durham, a city of about 180,000
residents in central North Carolina's rolling Piedmont. The
"Triangle" (the area within and adjacent to the triangle formed
by Durham, Chapel Hill, and Raleigh) offers an extended
community which includes four universities and several colleges,
as well as the
Research Triangle Park.
Duke University and
North Carolina Central University
in Durham,
the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill,
and North Carolina State University in Raleigh,
as well as the community of scholars and researchers of
the laboratories of the Research Triangle Park, give the area an
intellectual and cultural tone found in few parts of the
country. The combination of intellectual resources and mild
climate have stimulated substantial recent growth in the area,
which is consistently ranked as one of the best places to live
in the country. The region is not plagued by many of the
problems of large cities: there is little pollution, traffic
flows smoothly, and housing is relatively inexpensive.
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