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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.

Midu County is located in the west of Yunnan Plateau and the southeast of Dali Prefecture, bordering Xiangyun and Nanhua counties in the east, Jingdong and Nanjian counties in the south, Weishan County in the west and Dali City in the north. It is 320 kilometers east from the provincial capital Kunming, 61 kilometers north from Xiaguan, and 144 kilometers south from Manwan Power Station. It is one of the birthplaces of the Red River and the hinterbelt of the economic belt in the middle reaches of the Lancang River. in ancient times, it is known as "Liuzhao throat". It is a well-known hometown of lanterns and folk songs. The famous songs "Midu Folk Song", "embroidered purse" and "Ten Sisters" are known as the oriental serenade folk song "River dripping" from Midu. In 2010, Midu folk songs in Midu County, Yunnan Province, were selected into the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, traditional music project category, serial number 6.
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