So I'm actually quite confused here, because Wikipedia lists and cites a number from the US Census which puts Raleigh's population at about 1.1M.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_ar...

That's pointing to this spreadsheet hosted by the census:

https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/reference/ua/2020_Census_ua...

But, if we go to this fact table, they give that ~470k number.

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/raleighcitynort...