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Seattle Hotels and Visitor Information
Region: Pacific Northwest
State: Pacific Northwest
Population: 563,374
Elevation: 125 ft
Area Code(s): 206
Information: Seattle-King County Convention & Visitors Bureau, 520 Pike St, Suite 1300, 98101; phone 206/461-5840
Email: info@seeseattle.org Web: www.seeseattle.org
Area Description:
Seattle is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located in the U.S. state of Washington between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, nearly 108 miles (174 km) south of the United States-Canadian border in King County, of which it is the county seat.
Seattle is located between Puget Sound and Lake Washington. West beyond the Sound, Seattle faces the Olympic Mountains; across Lake Washington beyond the Eastside suburbs are the Issaquah Alps and the Cascade Range.
Seattle is so scenically blessed it's almost laughable. Just try to picture it: The snowcapped Olympic Mountains frame the eastern sky, while 14,410-foot Mount Rainier, although some 90 miles from the city, is a majestic presence on the southern horizon. Puget Sound is sculpted with an intricate network of bays and inlets and speckled with islands large and small, resembling nothing so much as polished emeralds flung onto the surface of an intense blue soup. The shore of long, skinny Lake Washington is beautified by an almost continuous series of sylvan parks and greenbelts.
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