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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.

Kang County, which belongs to Longnan City, Gansu Province, is located in the southeast of Gansu Province, southeast of Longnan City, and at the junction of Gansu, Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces. Kang County was known as Connecticut in ancient times, and was later incorporated into Wuzhou (Jizhou) after the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and Zhikang County in 1929. Kang County has jurisdiction over 18 towns and 3 townships, with a total area of 2958.46 square kilometers and a total population of 202000 (2015). In the Longnan Mountains on the south side of the West Qinling Mountains in Kangxian County, the elevation is between 560-2483 meters above sea level, which belongs to the transition from subtropical zone to warm temperate zone, with abundant rainfall, humid climate, sufficient light and forest coverage of 66.7%. It is known as "Longshang Jiangnan" and "Longshang Xishuangbanna". The natural resources of Kangxian County include water resources, biological resources, mineral resources and so on, with a total output value of 1.922 billion yuan in 2015. Kangxian County
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