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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.

Gao County, which belongs to Yibin City, Sichuan Province, is located on the southern edge of Sichuan Basin, Gongxian County and Changning County to the east, Xuzhou District to the west, Yunlian County to the south, Cuiping District of Yibin City to the north, Nanxi District to the northeast and Yanjin County, Yunnan Province to the northeast and southwest, between longitude 104 °21 and latitude 28 °11 to 28 °47', the county is 61 km long from north to south and 32 km wide from east to west, with a total area of 1323 square kilometers. The mountains, hills and trough dams in Gaoxian County account for 43.88% respectively. 43.72%, 12.4%. There are 31 large and small rivers, belonging to the Jinsha River and the Yangtze River system, of which Nanguang River is the largest river in the county. It belongs to the humid monsoon climate in the middle subtropics, with an annual average temperature of 18.1 ℃ and a precipitation of 1021 mm.
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