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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.

Zhangjiagang City, belonging to Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, is located in the east of Chinese mainland, on the south bank of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, connected with Changshu in the southeast, Suzhou and Wuxi in the south, Jiangyin in the west, and the Yangtze River in the north, across the river from Rugao and Jingjiang River. the total area is 986.73 square kilometers, of which the land area is 777 square kilometers and the water area is 195.67 square kilometers. Zhangjiagang City, formerly known as Shazhou, was abolished in September 1986, and Zhangjiagang City was established after Zhangjiagang, a natural good port in the territory. By 2018, there were 8 towns under the jurisdiction of Zhangjiagang City, and there were 7 functional areas with a resident population of 1.2606 million, achieving a GDP of 272.018 billion yuan, of which the added value of the primary industry was 3.063 billion yuan and that of the secondary industry was 1423.6.
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