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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.

Jingchuan County, which belongs to Pingliang City, Gansu Province, is located at the junction of Qinlong in the middle of the Loess Plateau, longitude 107 °15 "107 °45" east, latitude 35 °11 "35 °31" north. It is bordered by Ning County and Changwu County in Shaanxi Province in the east, Chongxin County and Kongtong District in the west, Lingtai County in the south and Zhenyuan County in the north. It is 57 kilometers from east to west and 36 kilometers from north to south, with a total area of 1409.3 square kilometers (2012). With a population of 283200 (2013), the GDP of Jingchuan County reached 4.553 billion yuan in 2013. Jingchuan County, the best suitable area for high-quality apples in the country, occupies the backbone of the ancient Silk Road and is the hinterland of Chinese civilization. Since ancient times, it has been the first important town from Changan to the western region. The famous scenic spots include Huishan Queen Mother Palace, Yaochi, Queen Mother Palace Grottoes and so on.
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