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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.

Lianyuan City, which belongs to Loudi City, Hunan Province, is located in the central part of Hunan Province, the northern margin of Hengshao Basin, the upper reaches of Lianshui and Sunshui. Lianyuan City, with a total area of 1830 square kilometers, has jurisdiction over 19 township offices and 1 high-tech zone, with a resident population of 983000 by the end of 2017. Lianyuan is located in the geometric center of Hunan and is an important transportation hub in central Hunan. Lou-Xin Expressway, Changshaolou Expressway, Erguang Expressway and Shanghai-Kunming High-speed Railway run through the whole territory. Lianyuan City is rich in natural resources, known as "sea of coal", "hometown of building materials" and "hometown of non-ferrous metals". It is Hunan energy and raw material base, 100 key coal-producing counties and cities, national well-known coal machinery production base, and national grain-producing counties. In 2018, Lianyuan City achieved a GDP of 29.06 billion yuan.
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