Research Triangle, North Carolina

County geometry from U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files (10m resolution, via us-atlas), aspect-corrected equirectangular projection, cropped and rescaled to the core Wake/Durham/Orange/Chatham/Johnston area for legibility — outlying counties (Person, Granville, Franklin, Lee, Harnett) are partially cropped at the edges. Company, university, biotech/pharma, AI/tech, and capital/VC markers reflect verified locations and status as of August 2026. Notes: GSK's NC presence moved from its former RTP campus to the American Tobacco Campus in downtown Durham in 2021–22. Apple's RTP campus (Wake County side, near Cary/Morrisville along NC-540) is announced and permitted but not yet built; Apple currently leases interim space on MetLife's Cary campus. Highway paths are hand-traced through known waypoints for illustration and are not survey-grade. Several downtown-Durham and RTP-core markers are nudged slightly apart for readability; they remain within the same immediate district as their real address.