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Seattle (/siˈætəl/ (listen) see-AT-əl) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The Seattle metropolitan area's population is 4.02 million, making it the 15th-largest in the United States. Its growth rate of 21.1% between 2010 and 2020 makes it one of the nation's fastest-growing large cities.

Seattle is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington. It is the northernmost major city in the United States, located about 100 miles (160 km) south of the Canadian border. A major gateway for trade with East Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling as of 2021[update].

The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived from Illinois via Portland, Oregon, on the schooner Exact at Alki Point on November 13, 1851. The settlement was moved to the eastern shore of Elliott Bay and named "Seattle" in 1852, in honor of Chief Si'ahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes. Today, Seattle has high populations of Native, Scandinavian, European American, Asian American and African American people, as well as a thriving LGBT community that ranks sixth in the United States by population.

Boxing County, which belongs to Binzhou City, Shandong Province, is located in the southeast of Binzhou City, with a total area of 900.7 square kilometers. There are three major river systems in Boxing County, namely, the Yellow River, Xiaoqing River and Zhimai River, which are rich in many kinds of agricultural and sideline products, such as wheat, cotton, soybean, corn, forest, fruit and vegetables. It is the only producing area of a series of crafted products of pu grass and the national export base of grass and willow handicrafts. Willow weaving and straw weaving are selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list and Shandong intangible cultural heritage list respectively. It is also an important grain and cotton production base and pollution-free vegetable production base in Shandong Province. it is named "the hometown of Chinese grass and willow" and "the hometown of high-quality tomatoes in China". As of 2018, Boxing County has jurisdiction over 3 streets and 9 towns. By the end of 2017, the total population of Boxing County was 503283.
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