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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.

Dazhou, a prefecture-level city of Sichuan Province, is located in the east of Sichuan Province. it has a history of more than 1900 years since the establishment of the county in the Eastern Han Dynasty. With an area of 16591 square kilometers, Dazhou has jurisdiction over 2 municipal districts, 4 counties and 1 county-level city, plus a high-tech zone with a total population of 6.9 million (as of December 2018, the population of the central district of Dazhou was 1.025 million). Dazhou is a populous city, an agricultural city, a resource-rich city, an industrial town, a transportation hub and an old revolutionary base in Sichuan Province. Luojiaba site and Chengba site in Dazhou are the birthplace of the ancient Ba people and Ba Culture Center in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It is the center of Baqu culture in Sichuan, one of the three major gas fields in the country and the starting point of the national "Sichuan gas transmission from east". It is a comprehensive national natural gas.
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