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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.

Tianshui, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Gansu Province, is located in the southeast of Gansu Province, adjacent to Guanzhong Plain. It is an important node city of Guanzhong Plain Urban agglomeration and the sub-core city of Guanzhong-Tianshui Economic Zone. Tianshui, once known as Shangli, Chengji and Qinzhou, is said to be the birthplace of Fuxi and Nu WA, one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization, known as "the hometown of Emperor Xi". Tianshui has jurisdiction over 2 districts and 5 counties, with a total area of 14325 square kilometers and a total population of 3.829 million, including 3.3549 million permanent residents (2018). Tianshui is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, with an elevation of 1000-2100 meters above sea level. The climate is temperate monsoon climate. Tianshui is a famous historical and cultural city in China, an excellent tourist city in China, and one of China's old industrial bases. It has national and provincial enterprise technology centers and engineering.
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