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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.

Tongxiang City is located in the north of Zhejiang Province, the hinterland of Hangjiahu Plain, belonging to Jiaxing City. It was listed in the first batch of open counties (cities) in the country in 1985. 131 km east of Shanghai, 74 km north of Suzhou and 65 km west of Hangzhou, it is located in the triangle of Shanghai, Hangzhou and Sujin. It has jurisdiction over 3 streets, 9 towns and 2 new districts, with a total population of 820000 in 2010. Tongxiang City, located in the southeast coast, is a typical subtropical monsoon climate. Warm and humid, four distinct seasons, Rain Water abundant, plenty of sunshine. It has the climatic characteristics of wet spring, hot summer, dry autumn and cold winter. The annual average temperature is 16.5 ℃. It was the coldest in January, with a monthly average temperature of 4.0 ℃ and an extreme minimum temperature of-11.0 ℃. Tongxiang achieved a GDP of 69.37 billion yuan in 2016. The total annual financial revenue reaches 10.05 billion.
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