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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.

Linxiang District is located in the resident of Lincang Municipal Government, located in the southwest of Yunnan Province, on the watershed of the Lancang River and Nujiang River, close to the banks of the Lancang River, between longitude 99 °49 and latitude 23 °29, bordering Jinggu Dai Autonomous County in the east, Jingdong Yi Autonomous County and Zhenyuan Yi Hani Lahu Autonomous County in the south, Gengma Dai and WA Autonomous County in the west, and Yunxian in the north. The east-west horizontal distance is 55 kilometers, and the north-south vertical distance is 83 kilometers. The total area is 2652 square kilometers. Once known as Burma, Maining and Lincang, it was officially renamed Linxiang District on October 18, 2004. Linxiang District has jurisdiction over 7 townships, 1 town, 2 streets, 93 villages and 9 communities, with a total population of 320000 (2012), with a total area of 2652 square meters.
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