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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.

Guazhou County, which belongs to Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, is located at the western end of the Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province, Yumen City, the oil city in the east, Dunhuang City in the west, the Mongolian Autonomous County in Subei in the north and south, and Hami in the northwest. Since ancient times, it has been the transportation hub of east to west and the merchant town of the ancient Silk Road. Guazhou County is 185km long from east to west and 220km wide from north to south, covering an area of 24100 square kilometers. Guazhou County has jurisdiction over 5 towns, 10 townships and 73 administrative villages. at the end of 2011, Guazhou County had a resident population of 149500, including 21 ethnic groups such as Han, Hui, Mongolian and Tibetan, and a minority population of 25000 (2011). Guazhou County has 4 national cultural relics protection units and 16 provincial cultural relics protection units. In 2011, the GDP of Guazhou County reached (G
Travel Notes In Guazhou County