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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.

Yingtan, a city (prefecture level) under the jurisdiction of Jiangxi Province, is an important member of the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. It is located in the transition zone from Wuyi Mountains to Pingyuan of Poyang Lake. The area has a mild subtropical humid monsoon climate; it has two districts and one city, with a total area of 3556.7 square kilometers; and a resident population of 1.1675 million in 2017. The Shanghai-Kunming high-speed railway, the Eagle-Xiamen line, the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line, the Anhui-Jiangxi line, the Shanghai-Kunming highway, the Ji-Guang highway and the 320 and 206 national highways in Yingtan City are crisscrossed in the urban area. Longhushan is a famous mountain described at the beginning of the classic Outlaws of the Marsh. It is famous for its beautiful Danxia, Taoist saints, ancient Yue songs and wonderful yin and yang at home and abroad. it is a world natural heritage site, world geopark and national 5A tourist scenery.
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