Seattle, founded on1869 65438+February 2, was named after Chief Seattle. Located on the Pacific coast in the northwest of Washington, USA, between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, it is adjacent to the Olympic Mountain in the west and Lake Washington in the east, about 174 km from the border between Canada and the United States. With a total area of 369.2 square kilometers, * * has jurisdiction over Tacoma, Olympia, Spokane, Bellevue and Auburn. Rivers, forests and lakes are widely distributed in this city, which belongs to temperate maritime climate. The population of this city is about 4.78 million (20 16), with Chinese accounting for 3.45% of the city's population.
Seattle is in a leading position in aerospace, computer software, bioinformatics, genetic science, electronic equipment, medical equipment and environmental engineering. Seattle is the center of the performing arts. The Seattle Symphony Orchestra has a history of over a hundred years and is one of the symphony orchestras with the largest number of records published in the world. Seattle is considered to be the birthplace of junk music and greasy rock. There are many celebrities in this field, such as Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft. In 20 16, the city's regional GDP reached $300.8 billion. One of the host cities of the 2026 World Cup 16.