The Fayetteville metro is sometimes included as a part of the region and has a population of 2 041 000 when added Students of land use and regional planning have recently begun to refer to the area as the Cinco Circle referencing the elliptical shape of the Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill Carrboro Cary area The use of the word cinco meaning 5 in Spanish also reflects the recent substantial increase in the Latino population in the Raleigh Durham area Between 1990 and 2004 North Carolina saw its Latino population grow from 76 000 to nearly 600 000 From the school years 2000 2001 to 2004 2005 Latino students accounted for 57 3 percent of the total growth in the North Carolina public schools resulting in a change in school enrollment of 45 148 students 1 WHAT This is precisely why Wikipedia is a load of bullshit