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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.

Fugou County, which belongs to Zhoukou City, Henan Province, is located in the East Henan Plain with an area of 1163 square kilometers. as of 2012, Fugou has jurisdiction over 16 townships, 1 industrial agglomeration area and 411 administrative villages. The total population is 743000 (2010). Fugou County was called "Tongqiu" in ancient times, because there are Futing in the east and Yuanshui ditch in the west, each taking a word, so it is called "Fugou". Gao Di of the Western Han Dynasty was first located in the county in 11 years (196 BC), which is one of the birthplaces of the ancient culture of the Yellow River. Fugou County was once regarded as one of the "ten red flags on the agricultural front of Henan Province". In 2010, Fugou County produced a total of 520 million kilograms of grain. Cotton textile manufacturing, machinery manufacturing and food processing have become the three pillar industries in Fugou County. In 2010, the added value of the three pillar industries was 1.39 billion yuan, accounting for more than large-scale industries.
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