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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.

Yecheng County is the abbreviation of Yeerqiang, which is named after the Yeerqiang River. Yeerqiang is a Turkic language. According to the Records of Waterways in the Western region, it is interpreted as "vast land". It means "a city on a cliff". There is a local saying that "this place is hospitable". The Uyghur language is called Kagelak, the Tu Zhi of the Western region is Hargaric, and the Strategy of Xinjiang is Halharic. There are other names such as Halagarik, Haharic and so on. Interpretation of Tongwen Chronicles of the Western regions: "reply. The land is full of trees, and there are crows' nests, that is, all in name. " It is located in the southwest of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous region, more than 1500 kilometers away from the capital Urumqi and 260km away from Kashgar. South by the Karakoram Mountains and Kunlun Mountains, north by the open plain, close to the Taklimakan Desert, the upper reaches of the Yeerqiang River, the topography is high in the south and low in the north. General noodles of Yecheng County
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