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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.

Zhuozhou, Hebei Province under the jurisdiction of county-level cities, managed by Baoding City, is located in the northwest of North China Plain, southwest of Beijing, the gate of the south of Beijing. It faces Gu'an in the east, Laishui in the west, Beijing in the north and Gaobeidian in the south. Zhuozhou belongs to Hebei Province. Zhuozhou has a total area of 742.5 square kilometers. As of March 2019, the total registered population of Zhuozhou is 680000. On September 24, 1986, Zhuoxian County was withdrawn and Zhuozhou City was built under the jurisdiction of Zhuoxian County, which still belongs to Baoding area. Zhuozhou famous specialty products are Zhuozhou Gongmi, gold tapestry, du Kang noodles and so on. Famous figures in Zhuozhou include Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Zhao Kuangyin, Ji Daoyuan and so on. In 2008, it was approved as a "provincial historical and cultural city" by the people's Government of Hebei Province. On February 28, 2015, Hebei held a mobilization meeting on the pilot system reform of counties (cities) directly administered by the province.
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Enter the ancient county Zhuozhou in the middle of winter, and visit the Sanyi Palace and Film and Television City (Wang Zhiming)
Walk into Zhuozhou, an ancient county In the middle of winter, the sky is gloomy, and the northern villages are bleak. I came to Zhuozhou, an ancien
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