Seattle
Seattle (/siˈætəl/ (
listen) see-AT-əl) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Washington. It is the home of the Space Needle and a monorail, both of which were built for the 1962 World's Fair. It is also the American headquarters of Boeing, Starbucks coffee, Amazon.com and Nordstrom. In the 1960s and 1990s, music artists like Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and others from the city became popular. It is also the setting of the TV shows Here Come the Brides, Frasier, and Grey's Anatomy.
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| Country | United States |
| State | Washington |
| County | King |
| Founded | November 13, 1851[a] |
| Incorporated as a town | January 14, 1865 |
| Incorporated as a city | December 2, 1869 |
| Named for | Chief Si'ahl |
| Government | |
| • Type | Mayor–council |
| • Body | Seattle City Council |
| • Mayor | Bruce Harrell (D) |
| Area | |
| • City | 142.07 sq mi (367.97 km2) |
| • Land | 83.99 sq mi (217.54 km2) |
| • Water | 58.08 sq mi (150.43 km2) |
| • Metro | 8,186 sq mi (21,202 km2) |
| Elevation [source?] | 175 ft (53 m) |
| Highest elevation | 520 ft (158 m) |
| Lowest elevation | 0 ft (0 m) |
| Population | |
| • City | 737,015 |
| • Estimate (2023)[2] | 755,078 |
| • Rank | 58th in North America 18th in the United States 1st in Washington |
| • Density | 8,775.03/sq mi (3,387.95/km2) |
| • Urban | 3,544,011 (US: 13th) |
| • Urban density | 3,607.1/sq mi (1,392.7/km2) |
| • Metro | 4,018,762 (US: 15th) |
| GDP | |
| • Seattle (MSA) | US$479.966 billion (2021) |
| Time zone | UTC−8 (Pacific (PST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−7 (PDT) |
| ZIP Codes | |
| FIPS code | 53-63000 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1512650[10] |
| Website | {{URL|example.com|optional display text}} |
Seattle has many sports teams, including the Seattle Mariners (baseball), the Seattle Seahawks (American football), the Seattle Kraken (ice hockey), the Sounders FC (soccer), and the Seattle Storm (women's basketball). Seattle has a lot of water around it, with Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean to the west and Lake Washington to the east. About 750,000 people live in the city. More than 4,000,000 (4 million) people live in the city or near it.
Seattle is home to many colleges and universities. The most notable of these are, University of Washington, and Seattle University.
Seattle has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Csb in the Köppen climate classification).
Seattle Media
Seattle's first streetcar at the corner of Occidental and Yesler in 1884; all buildings depicted were destroyed by the Great Seattle Fire five years later, in 1889.
An 1891 aerial view of Seattle and surrounding King County
Pioneer Square, the Pioneer Building, the Smith Tower, and the Seattle Hotel in 1917
The Seattle Center Monorail under construction in 1961
A satellite photo of Seattle in September 2018
Packed circles diagram showing estimates of the ethnic origins of people in Seattle in 2021.
Washington Mutual's last headquarters, the WaMu Center, now the Russell Investments Center, (center left), and its prior headquarters, Washington Mutual Tower, now the 1201 Third Avenue Tower
The corporate headquarters of online retailer Amazon, named Day 1 and located in Denny Triangle
Notes
- ↑ November 13, 1851 is often referred to as the unofficial date of Seattle's founding, when much of the Denny Party arrived at Alki Point. However, the first White settlers to inhabit the area had already arrived in September, which included some members of the Denny clan. The modern city did not take shape until the following spring after much of the party abandoned Alki to move across the bay. The name "Seattle" didn't become official until May 23, 1853.
References
- ↑ "2022 U.S. Gazetteer Files: Washington". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 15, 2024.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "QuickFacts: Seattle city, Washington". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 10, 2024.
- ↑ "List of 2020 Census Urban Areas". census.gov. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 8, 2023.
- ↑ "2020 Population and Housing State Data". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 22, 2021.
- ↑ Balk, Gene (October 2, 2012). When can you call yourself a Seattleite?. http://blogs.seattletimes.com/fyi-guy/2012/10/02/when-can-you-call-yourself-a-seattleite/. Retrieved October 19, 2018.
- ↑ Wilson-Codega, Lily. "About Seattle: Sister Cities". City of Seattle. Retrieved October 19, 2018.
- ↑ "GDP by county in 2021" (PDF). www.bea.gov.
- ↑ "Zip Code Lookup". USPS. Archived from the original on November 12, 2015.
- ↑ "Zip Code Lookup". USPS. Archived from the original on November 12, 2015.
- ↑ "Seattle". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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