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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.

Zhangzhou, under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province, is one of the cities on the west coast of the Taiwan Strait. China's "pastoral city, ecological city", ecological competitiveness ranks in the forefront of Fujian, the national Minnan cultural and ecological reserve. Zhangzhou is located in the "South Fujian Golden Triangle". The central urban areas are Xiangcheng District, Longwen District, Zhangzhou Taiwan Investment Zone and Zhangzhou High-tech Industrial Development Zone. It is an important hub area for the intersection of Xiamen-Shenzhen Railway, Longxia Railway, Eagle-Xiamen Railway and Fuzhou-Xiamen High-speed Railway, and a national regional circulation node city in China. There are many typhoons in summer and autumn in Zhangzhou. It is the famous "hometown of fish, rice, flowers and fruits". Zhangzhou Plain is the largest plain in Fujian. Known as "seaside Zou Lu", he was selected as the Forbes Top 100 Commercial City in China in 2014.
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