Note that there is also a Geth command for creating new accounts that will eventually be deprecated in favour of Clef. The following command will achieve the same as the RPC call suggested above:
An account can also be created by importing a raw private key (hex string) using `clef importraw` as follows:
```sh
geth account new
clef importraw <hexkey>
```
The terminal will respond with the following message, indicating the account has been created successfully: