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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.

Shanxi, referred to as "Jin", the provincial administrative district of the people's Republic of China, the capital of Taiyuan, is located in North China. Shanxi is bounded by 34 °34km north latitude and 114o 14km east longitude, bordering Hebei to the east, Shaanxi to the west, Henan to the south and Inner Mongolia to the north, with a total area of 156700 square kilometers. The topography of Shanxi Province is a parallelogram oblique to the southwest, which is a typical mountain plateau covered by loess, which is high in the northeast and low in the southwest. The internal ups and downs of the plateau, vertical and horizontal river valleys, landforms have mountains, hills, platforms, plains, mountain areas account for 80.1% of the total area. Shanxi Province straddles the Yellow River and Haihe River, and the river belongs to the self-produced outflow type. Shanxi Province is located in the inland of the middle latitudes and belongs to the temperate continent.
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