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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.

Taoshan District, which belongs to Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province, is located in the five major urban agglomeration centers of Qitaihe, Jixi, Jiamusi, Hegang and Shuangyashan in the east of Heilongjiang Province. On January 20, 1984, Taoshan District was established. Taoshan District covers an area of 78.9 square kilometers, 5.8 kilometers from east to west, 3 kilometers from north to south, and 160 to 320 above sea level. Taoshan District has a cold temperate continental monsoon climate, with an average annual temperature of 3.4℃, an annual maximum of 4.8℃ and an average annual precipitation of about 540mm. In 2013, the GDP of Taoshan District was budgeted to reach 3.09 billion yuan, down 21.8% from the same period in 2012. After adjusting the budget, the full-caliber revenue will reach 270 million yuan, and the public budget revenue will reach 160 million yuan. Investment in social fixed assets reached 1.1 billion yuan, compared with the same period last year.
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