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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.

Deqing County, named after "people have virtue, such as water to clear". It is under the jurisdiction of Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, located in the west of Hangjiahu Plain in the Yangtze River Delta, and the county government is located in Wukang Street. The county has jurisdiction over 4 streets and 8 towns. The land area is 937.95 square kilometers, with an east-west span of 55.95km and a north-south span of 29.92km. The territory has scenic spots such as Mogan Mountain, Xiazhu Lake, Xinshi ancient town, French mountain residence Naked Heart Valley and so on. Deqing is known as "the scenic spot of famous mountains, the land of fish and rice, the house of silk, the land of bamboo and tea, and the land of culture". In 2018, Deqing County achieved a regional GDP of 51.7 billion yuan, an increase of 8%; total financial revenue of 10.08 billion yuan, an increase of 20.4%, of which local revenue was 5.91 billion yuan, an increase of 21.5%; urban and rural residents
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