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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.

Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County is a county under the jurisdiction of Haidong City, Qinghai Province, located on the eastern edge of Qinghai Province, connected with Yongdeng County of Gansu Province and Honggu District of Lanzhou City in the northeast, Yongjing County of Gansu Province in the east, opposite Jishishan County of Gansu Province to the south, and Xunhua County, Hualong County and Ledu District of the province in the west, northwest and north. The county is about 96 kilometers from north to south and 32 kilometers from east to west, with a total area of 1890.82 square kilometers. Minhe Hui Tu Autonomous County has jurisdiction over 8 towns and 14 townships. Minhe Hui Tu Autonomous County is mainly Han nationality, and ethnic minorities are mainly Hui, Tu, Tibetan, etc., with a total population of 421300 (2011). It is an important grain, vegetable, melon and fruit producing area in Qinghai Province. It enjoys the beauty of quot; & the hometown of melons and fruits in the whole province.
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