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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.

Huanning County, a subordinate county of Yuxi City, Yunnan Province, is located on the southern edge of the lake basin area of the central Yunnan plateau and belongs to the Zhongshan type landform. It is bordered by Maile County in the east, Jianshui County in the south, Tonghai County and Jiangchuan County in the west, Chengjiang County and Yiliang County in the north. The territory is 34 km wide from east to west, 59 km from north to south, with a total area of 1313 square kilometers, with a mountain area of 89%. It is located between 23 °59'N and 24 °34 °N and 102 °49'E to 103 °09'E. the terrain is high in the northwest, low in the southeast, narrow in east and west, long in the north and south, undulating mountains and mountains, hills, basins and valleys interlaced with "two ridges and two grooves". The larger basins are Ningzhou Dam and Panxi Dam. The main rivers are Nanpan River, Qinglong River, Haikou River, Longdong River and Huaxi River, all of which belong to the Pearl River system.
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