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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.

Qingshui County, under the jurisdiction of Tianshui City, Gansu Province, is located in the southeast of Gansu Province, northeast of Tianshui City, Niutou River Basin, a tributary of the Weihe River on the north bank of Longshan, southwest of Longshan; Longxian County, Baoji in the east, wheat accumulation area in the south, Qinan County in the west, and Zhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous County in the north; it is located in the transitional zone from Longshan Mountain to Longxi Loess Plateau, with temperate continental monsoon climate; it has jurisdiction over 15 towns and 3 townships with a total area of 2012 square kilometers. The total population in 2018 is 332364. Qingshui was called Shangfu in ancient times and got the name of the county from "four Notes of Qingquan". It is the birthplace of Huangdi Xuanyuan, the first ancestor of Chinese humanities, the birthplace of Qin unified China, and the hometown of Zhao Chongguo in the Western Han Dynasty. Prehistoric culture, pre-Qin culture, Han and Tang culture, Song (Jin) and Yuan culture accumulation; the territory has been identified by the State Administration of Cultural relics as "Wei and Jin ancient city" and "not"
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