Seattle, Washington
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Seattle is a major coastal seaport city and the seat of King County, in the U.S. state of Washington. With an estimte of 634,535 residents as of 2012, Seattle is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of North America and is one of the fastest growing cities in the nation. The Seattle metropolitan area of around 4 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the United States. The city is on a narrow strip of land between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, about 100 miles south of the Canada–United States border.