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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.

Lai'an County, which belongs to Chuzhou City, Anhui Province, is located in the east of Anhui Province. Founded in the 26 year of Qin Shihuang (221 BC), it is called Jianyang County. After several Yi county name, to the first year of Zhongxing in the Southern Tang Dynasty (958), named Lai'an County. Lai'an County has jurisdiction over 12 townships, two provincial economic development zones, two national 4A tourist attractions and a national wetland park, with a land area of 1481 square kilometers and a total population of 490900. Lai'an County, adjacent to Nanjing Jiangbei New area, a national new area, is the core layer of Nanjing metropolitan area and an important gateway of Nanjing Jiangbei. The Chahe town under its jurisdiction is adjacent to Nanjing High-tech Development Zone and is close to Nanjing Metro Line 3 Forest Farm Station. Only 12 kilometers away from Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. In 2017, the annual gross domestic product (GDP) of Lai'an County reached 15.94 billion yuan.
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