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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.

Xiangdong District, which belongs to Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, is a district in the west of Pingxiang City, located on the border between Jiangxi and Hunan, Liling City, Hunan Province in the west, and Youxian County in Hunan Province in the southwest. It is the west gate of Jiangxi Province, known as "Ganxi Portal" and "Wu Chu Tong qu". The district covers an area of 858.76 square kilometers and has jurisdiction over 8 towns, 2 townships and 1 street, 132 administrative villages (neighborhood committees), with a total population of 371240 (2018). The cultural heritage of eastern Hunan is profound, with the reputation of "hometown of folk painting", "hometown of brass music", "hometown of flowers and gongs" and "hometown of Nuo culture". In October 2018, it won the national leading area for the integration and development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas. On January 25, 2019, he was selected as the national "Ping an Agricultural Machinery" demonstration county in 2018. March 2019
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