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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.

Chaling County, which belongs to Zhuzhou City, is located in the east of Hunan Province. It extends to Changsha in the north, Guangzhou in the south, Hengyang in the west and Jiangxi in the east, covering an area of 2500 square kilometers (2013). It is located between longitude 113 °20 "113 °65" east and latitude 26 °30 "27 °7 'north. It belongs to the humid climate of subtropical monsoon. Chaling County is the only administrative county named after tea in Chinese history. Because it is located in the "shadow of the tea mountain", and the first ancestor of the Chinese nation, Yan Emperor Shennong, was buried at the end of the tea village. Because of the Southern Song Dynasty county magistrate Liu Zimai cast iron rhinoceros town river demon and has the reputation of "rhinoceros city". Chaling County is one of the six counties in the Jinggangshan revolutionary base area, and the key counties and model counties in the Hunan-Jiangxi revolutionary base area are the first red political power in China created by Mao Zedong. In August 2018, Hunan Provincial Government approved the reply.
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