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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.

Luding County, located in the southeast of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province, is located in the transitional zone from Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to Sichuan Basin, bordering Tianquan and Laojing in the east, Kangding and Kowloon in the west, and Shimian County in the south. The county is 236.2 kilometers away from Chengdu and 49 kilometers away from Kangding. The county seat is 1321 meters above sea level, with 7 towns, 5 townships and 145 administrative villages within its jurisdiction, covering an area of 2165.35 square kilometers. It is inhabited by 17 ethnic groups, including Han, Tibetan and Yi, with a total population of 87065 at the end of 2017. It is a mountainous multi-ethnic county with the smallest land area, relatively high population education, the densest population and rapid economic development. it is also a regional trade center in the eastern part of Ganzi Prefecture and a supply base for agricultural and sideline products in various counties in Ganzi Prefecture. It is known as the "Dongda" of Ganzi Prefecture.
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