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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.

Panan County, which belongs to Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, is located in the central part of Zhejiang Province (the geographical center of Zhejiang, known as "the Heart of Zhejiang"), bordering Dongyang, Xinchang, Xianju, Tiantai and other cities and counties. Within 2 hours from Hangzhou, Wenzhou and Ningbo, it belongs to the economic zone of the south wing of the Yangtze River Delta and the economic zone of central Zhejiang urban agglomeration. With a total area of 1196 square kilometers, it has jurisdiction over 2 streets, 7 towns and 5 townships with a population of 209000. Panan County was established in 1939 in the flames of the Anti-Japanese War. In 1958, the whole territory was merged into Dongyang County. In 1983, Panan County was restored. Panan is the largest Confucius settlement in the south of the Yangtze River, with two "national key cultural relic protection units" of Yushan ancient tea farm and beech stream Kong family temple and the only national medicinal plant national nature reserve-Dapanshan Nature Reserve, National 4A
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