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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.

Haifeng County, which belongs to Shanwei City, Guangdong Province, is located in the southeast of Guangdong Province. Haifeng is derived from "Nanhai Wufeng" and is known as "the land of fish and rice". It is a famous historical and cultural city in Guangdong and one of the 13 red bases in the country. Xianhe six years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 331) established a county. In the ninth year of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty (1731), Shifan, Fang and Jikang were all set up in Lufeng County. Shanwei City was established in March 1988, and Haifeng designated seven coastal towns as urban areas. The county has jurisdiction over 16 townships, one economic development zone and three agricultural and forestry farms, with a total population of more than 800,000. Haifeng is also a famous hometown of overseas Chinese. There are 470000 overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. In March 2019, it was on the list of the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization districts and counties.
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