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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.

Maanshan, referred to as "Ma", is a prefecture-level city in Anhui Province, located in the eastern part of Anhui Province and the confluence area of Jiangsu and Anhui Province. it is a member city of Hefei Metropolitan area, Nanjing Metropolitan area, member cities of Yangtze River Delta Urban agglomeration, cities along Yangtze River Economic Belt and Wanjiang City Belt to undertake industrial transfer demonstration area; it has jurisdiction over 3 districts and 3 counties with a total area of 4049 square kilometers. In 2018, the resident population was 2.337 million. Ma'anshan, which straddles the Yangtze River and borders Nanjing, has been known as "Jinling barrier and Jiankang lock key" since ancient times. As early as the six dynasties, many famous princes and virtuous scholars lingered in Maanshan, leaving many monuments and cultural relics. It has successively won the national civilized cities, national public cultural service standardization construction pilot cities, national science and technology pilot cities, southern Anhui international tourism culture demonstration zone, and the first batch of countries.
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