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Puget Sound

Puget Sound is a large semi-enclosed fjord in , with its northern boundary marked by Admiralty Pass and the Strait of San Juan de Fuca.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Seattle and Olympia.

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, sits at one of the most beautiful spots in the United States. Occupying a narrow isthmus between the Puget Sound and Lake Washington, it is the biggest city in the , with 780,000 people in and over four million people in the metro area.

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is the capital of Washington State, and the seat of Thurston County in the region. The small city of 56,000 has a diverse economic base, and is a breeding ground for alternative culture in the , having spawned or influenced many of the region's better-known personalities.

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, a major port on the Puget Sound, is the third-largest city in , with about 220,000 residents. It has a dynamic art scene and a great ballet.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as King County and Kitsap Peninsula.

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is the largest county in by population, home to roughly 30% of the state's residents. It stretches from Puget Sound to the Cascade Range, encompassing the major cities of and and their sprawling suburbs, as well as wide stretches of rural farmland and uninhabited mountain terrain.

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The is in the Puget Sound of , between the Cascade and Olympic mountain ranges. It is almost an island, connected to the mainland by only a 2 mi wide stretch of land near Belfair.

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The refers to the area along the far reaches of the Puget Sound in . It consists of Pierce County and Thurston County, which includes the state capital of Olympia and the major port city of Tacoma.

Puget Sound

Latitude of center
47.8332° or 47° 49′ 59″ north
Longitude of center
-122.4346° or 122° 26′ 5″ west
Open­Street­Map ID
node 369028433
Geo­Names ID
5807517
Wiki­data ID
Q604141
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Puget Sound” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيوجت ساوند”
  • Armenian: “Փյուջեթ (ծոց)”
  • Armenian: “Փյուջեթ”
  • Basque: “Puget Sound”
  • Belarusian: “П’юджэт-Саўнд”
  • Belarusian: “Пюджэт-Саўнд”
  • Bulgarian: “Пюджет Саунд”
  • Catalan: “Puget Sound”
  • Cebuano: “Puget Sound”
  • Chinese: “普吉特海湾”
  • Chinese: “普吉特湾”
  • Chinese: “皮吉特湾”
  • Czech: “Pugetův záliv”
  • Danish: “Puget Sound”
  • Dutch: “Puget Sound”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيوجت ساوند”
  • Esperanto: “Puĝeta Fjordo”
  • Finnish: “Pugetinsalmi”
  • French: “Puget Sound”
  • German: “Puget Sound”
  • Greek: “Πιούτζιτ Σάουντ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Puget Hói-vân”
  • Hebrew: “מפרץ פיוג’ט”
  • Hebrew: “מפרץ פיוג’יט”
  • Hungarian: “Puget Sound”
  • Icelandic: “Puget-sund”
  • Indonesian: “Puget Sound”
  • Irish: “Caolas Puget”
  • Italian: “Puget Sound”
  • Italian: “Stretto di Puget”
  • Japanese: “ピュージェット湾”
  • Korean: “푸젓사운드 만”
  • Korean: “퓨젓사운드 만”
  • Korean: “퓨젓사운드만”
  • Lithuanian: “Pjudžet Saundo įlanka”
  • Luxembourgish: “Puget Sound”
  • Macedonian: “Пјуџет”
  • Malay: “Puget Sound”
  • Malay: “Selat Puget”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Puget Sound”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pugetsundet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Puget Sound”
  • Norwegian: “Puget Sound”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Estrech de Puget”
  • Persian: “پیوجت ساند”
  • Persian: “دریاراه پیوجت”
  • Polish: “Puget Sound”
  • Polish: “Zatoka Puget”
  • Portuguese: “Puget Sound”
  • Russian: “Пёджентсунд”
  • Russian: “Пугетзунд”
  • Russian: “Пьюджет-Саунд”
  • Russian: “Пьюджет”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Puget”
  • Slovenian: “Puget Sound”
  • Slovenian: “Pugetov zaliv”
  • Spanish: “Estrecho de Puget”
  • Swedish: “Pugetsundet”
  • Turkish: “Puget Boğazı”
  • Ukrainian: “П’юджет-Саунд”
  • Ukrainian: “Пюджет-Саунд”
  • Venetian: “Puget Sound”
  • Vietnamese: “vịnh Puget”
  • Volapük: “Puget Sound”
  • Western Frisian: “Puget Sound”

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