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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.

Qufu, the ancient capital of Lu and the hometown of Confucius, is known as "the Holy City of the East" and "Jerusalem of the East". It is located in the southwest of Shandong Province, 135 kilometers north from Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province. Surabaya in the east, Yanzhou in the west, Zoucheng in the south and Mount Tai in the north. The total area is 895.93 square kilometers. The resident population is 654500 (2016). One of the counties (cities) under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province, the administrative division belongs to Jining. In 2018, the city's gross domestic product (GDP) reached 40.719 billion yuan, and the city's general public budget income was 2.539 billion yuan. Qufu is the hometown of Confucius, a great thinker, educator and founder of Confucianism in ancient China. Qufu is also located in the Confucius Institute of the World Center for Confucian Research and Exchange. In 1982, Qufu was rated as the first batch of national famous historical and cultural cities.
Airport In Qufu - Jining Qufu Airport
Jining Qufu Airport (Jining Qufu Airport, IATA: JNG, ICAO: ZSJG), located on Airport Road, Zhifang Town, Jiaxiang County, Jining City, Shandong Province, China, 25 kilometers northeast of Jining city center, is a 4C-level military-civilian branch airport   .
On February 26, 1997, the Air Force Jining Airport was approved by the State Council and the Central Military Commission to implement military-civilian reconstruction and expansion; in January 2008, the civilian part of the Air Force Jining Airport was named Jining Qufu Airport   ; On December 28, 2008, Jining Qufu Airport officially opened civil aviation business   .
As of February 2021, the terminal area of ​​Jining Qufu Airport is 9,740 square meters, with 2 boarding bridges; the civil aviation station area is 30,000 square meters, with 6 C-class seats; the runway is 2,800 meters long and 50 meters wide , which can meet the needs of annual passenger throughput of 420,000 passengers     .
In 2021, Jining Qufu Airport will complete a total of 1,006,299 passenger throughput, a year-on-year increase of 141.4%, ranking 95th in the country; cargo and mail throughput of 2,662.9 tons, a year-on-year increase of 110.7%, ranking 90th in the country; An increase of 145.2%, ranking 126th in the country   .
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