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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.

Jiaxing, also known as "Hecheng", is a prefecture-level city in Zhejiang Province, the Yangtze River Delta Urban agglomeration, important cities in the Shanghai Metropolitan area, the core city in the Dawan area of Zhejiang Province, the vice central city of Hangzhou Metropolitan area and the central city of Shanghai-Jiahang G60 Science and Technology creation Corridor. located in the northeast of Zhejiang Province, the hinterland of the Hangjiahu Plain in the Yangtze River Delta. Jiaxing is located at the river-lake sea rendezvous, strangling the throat of the south corridor of Taihu Lake, less than 100 kilometers away from Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Ningbo and other cities. The land area is 4275.05 square kilometers (including the water area of the Qiantang River, the dividing line between the river and sea of the Qiantang River is connected by Haiyan Qipu-Yuyaoxi three gates). Jiaxing system began in the Qin Dynasty, has more than 2000 years of human history, has been a prosperous and rich place since ancient times, known as the "land of fish and rice", "silk"
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