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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.

Yimen County is located in the central and western part of Yunnan Province, northwest of Yuxi City, connected with Anning City and Jinning District in the east, Eshan in the south, across the Luzhe River in the west and Shuangbai, and bordered by Lufeng County and Anning City in the north. It belongs to Yuxi City. The southeast is 146 kilometers away from Hongta District of Yuxi City, and 94 kilometers northeast from the provincial capital Kunming. The high-grade highway with a mileage of 43 kilometers can reach Kunming and Chuxiong from the county seat. The county has a distance of 44 kilometers from east to west and 57 kilometers from north to south, with a total area of 1571 square kilometers, ranking fourth in Yuxi City. The total population is 177110 (2010). The government is stationed in Longquan Town. Yimen Longquan National Forest Park, a national forest park approved by the State Forestry Administration in 1992.
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