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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.

Nima County is a county under the jurisdiction of Naqu City, Tibet Autonomous region, located in the north of the Tibet Autonomous region and northwest of Naqu City, bordering Xigaze City in the south, Shuanghu County and Shenza County in the east, and Gaize County in the west. The average elevation is more than 5000 meters. It belongs to the semi-arid monsoon climate in the subcold zone of the plateau and the arid climate in the cold zone of the plateau. The air is thin, windy and snowy, with an average annual temperature of-4 ℃ and annual precipitation of 150mm. With a total area of 72499.41 square kilometers and a population of 31161 (at the end of 2014), it has jurisdiction over 1 town, 13 townships and 77 administrative villages. The county government is stationed in Nima town. Nima means "sun" in Tibetan. Nima County, whose economy is mainly animal husbandry, is a pure animal husbandry county. In 2014, the county's GDP was 482.86 million yuan.
Travel Notes In Nyima County
Across Qiangtang, Bangor and Nima ——2020 Autumn Tibet, Xinjiang and Qinghai Self-driving Travel Notes (9)
The Qiangtang Plateau is an important part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the largest inland area of ​​the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (in the Qiangtang Basi