Seattle

Seattle (/ siːætəl /) is the largest city in the state of Washington, in the northwest of the United States of America. The metropolitan area of the city comprises Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, is the 15th most populous in the country and the largest in the Pacific Northwest.3 The city is located between Lake Washington and the island known as Puget Sound, next to the Ocean Peaceful. It is located 155 kilometers south of the US-Canada border. Important cultural, educational and economic center of the region, Seattle is the seat of King County. In the estimated 2007 Census, the city had a municipal population of 594,210 inhabitants, 4 making it the twenty-fourth most populous city in the United States and a metropolitan area of 3,263,497 inhabitants.3