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Seattle

Seattle, 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 Seattle and over four million people in the metro area.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Capitol Hill-Central District and Downtown Seattle.

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Capitol Hill is Seattle's most densely populated neighborhood and the heart of the city's counterculture. Lying directly east of the retail core, Capitol Hill is unofficially bounded to the east by 23rd Ave, to the west by Interstate 5, to the south by E Union St, and to the north by E Interlaken Blvd.

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Packed between Elliott Bay and the hilly neighborhoods to the east, unsurprisingly contains the city's bustling financial and retail district.

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Northwest of , Queen Anne is a hilly residential neighborhood with marvelous views of the city's skyline. Magnolia, a wealthy residential neighborhood, sits on a peninsula west of Queen Anne, separated from Queen Anne by Interbay, an unexpected commercial and industrial strip in the valley between the two hilly neighborhoods.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Pioneer Square-International District and Ballard.

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Pioneer Square is Seattle's oldest neighborhood, showcasing a wealth of art galleries, bookstores, antique shops, cool restaurants, and buzzing nightclubs within easy walking distance of most Downtown Seattle hotels.

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is a neighborhood in northwest Seattle. The trendy neighborhood for dining and nightlife is near the Locks connecting Lake Union to Puget Sound.

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The , or "U-District", surrounds the University of Washington in northeast Seattle. UW is one of the largest colleges in the United States, with over 50,000 students.

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is the large portion of Seattle west of the Duwamish River. Separated from the remainder of the city by topography, it has a decidedly less urban character, making it a surprisingly close getaway from the activity of the area.

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is roughly the area between 85th Street and the border with at 145th Street. It also includes a few neighborhoods south of 85th Street facing Lake Washington.

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is a broad swath of the city between I-5 to the west and Lake Washington to the east. It is the most ethnically diverse part of not only Seattle, but arguably of the entire United States: the area served by the 98188 ZIP Code, roughly the eastern half of this district, consistently ranks among the country's most diverse postal codes.

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Seattle's SoDo used to be called "South of the Dome", referring to the now-demolished Kingdome stadium; to keep some sense in the name, it is explained now as "South of Downtown".

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Seattle's district, which bills itself as "The Center of the Universe", is known for its quirky atmosphere. To the east of is Wallingford, a "small town in a big city" with craftsman bungalows and a busy main street brimming with restaurants and bars.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Space Needle and Museum of Pop Culture.

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The is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, United States. Considered to be an icon of the city, it has been designated a Seattle landmark.

Museum
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The is a nonprofit museum in Seattle, Washington, United States, dedicated to contemporary popular culture. It was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2000 as the Experience Music Project.

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Traditional are representations of a twisting turning path, often allegorical, whilst many modern mazes are a puzzle to be enjoyed whilst a solution is sought.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eastlake and Capitol Hill.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in Seattle, , so named because of its location on the eastern shore of . Its main thoroughfare is Avenue E, which runs from Howell Street at the northeast corner of north over the to the , where it connects to Roosevelt Way N.E. and 11th Avenue N.E.

Suburb
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is a densely populated residential district and a neighborhood in Seattle, , . It is immediately east of and north of .

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in southeastern Seattle, Washington, within the city's district. It has a landmark-protected historic business district and is one of the few Seattle neighborhoods with a long history of ethnic and income diversity.

Seattle

Latitude
47.6038° or 47° 36′ 14″ north
Longitude
-122.3301° or 122° 19′ 48″ west
Population
737,000
Elevation
184 feet (56 metres)
IATA airport code
SEA
United Nations Location Code
US SEA
Open location code
84VVJM39+GX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29546940
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5809844
Wiki­data ID
Q5083
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Seattle” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Seattle”
  • Albanian: “Seattle”
  • Albanian: “Siatëll”
  • Amharic: “ስያትል”
  • Arabic: “سياتل”
  • Arabic: “سياتيل، واشنطن”
  • Armenian: “Սիեթլ”
  • Asturian: “Seattle (Washington)”
  • Asturian: “Seattle, Washington”
  • Asturian: “Seattle”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sietl”
  • Balinese: “Seattle”
  • Bambara: “Seattle”
  • Bashkir: “Сиэтл”
  • Basque: “Seattle”
  • Bavarian: “Seattle”
  • Belarusian: “Сіетл”
  • Belarusian: “Сіэтл”
  • Bengali: “সিয়াটল”
  • Bengali: “সিয়াটেল”
  • Bosnian: “Seattle”
  • Breton: “Seattle”
  • Bulgarian: “Сиатъл”
  • Burmese: “ဆေအတလ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Seattle”
  • Cebuano: “Seattle”
  • Central Kurdish: “سیاتڵ”
  • Chavacano: “Seattle”
  • Chechen: “Сиэтл”
  • Chinese: “Seattle”
  • Chinese: “西雅图”
  • Chinese: “西雅圖”
  • Cornish: “Seattle”
  • Corsican: “Seattle”
  • Croatian: “Seattle, Washington”
  • Croatian: “Seattle”
  • Czech: “Seattle”
  • Dagbani: “Seattle”
  • Danish: “Seattle”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Seattle”
  • Dutch: “Seattle”
  • Eastern Mari: “Сиэтл”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سياتل”
  • Esperanto: “Seatlo”
  • Esperanto: “Seattle”
  • Estonian: “Seattle”
  • Faroese: “Seattle”
  • Finnish: “Seattle, Washington”
  • Finnish: “Seattle”
  • French: “Seattle (Washington)”
  • French: “Seattle”
  • Galician: “Seattle”
  • Gan Chinese: “西雅圖”
  • Georgian: “სიეტლი”
  • German: “Seattle, WA”
  • German: “Seattle, Washington”
  • German: “Seattle”
  • Gilaki: “سياتل”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌻”
  • Greek: “Σιάτλ, Ουάσιγκτον”
  • Greek: “Σιάτλ, Ουάσινγκτον”
  • Greek: “Σιάτλ”
  • Gujarati: “સિએટલ”
  • Haitian: “Seattle, Washington”
  • Haitian: “Seattle”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Seattle”
  • Hausa: “Seattle”
  • Hawaiian: “Seattle”
  • Hebrew: “סיאטל”
  • Hindi: “सिएटल”
  • Hindi: “सीऐटल”
  • Hungarian: “Seattle”
  • Icelandic: “Seattle”
  • Ido: “Seattle”
  • Igbo: “Seattle”
  • Iloko: “Seattle”
  • Inari Sami: “Seattle”
  • Indonesian: “Duwamps”
  • Indonesian: “New York Alki”
  • Indonesian: “Seattle”
  • Interlingua: “Seattle”
  • Irish: “Seattle, Washington”
  • Irish: “Seattle”
  • Italian: “Emerald City”
  • Italian: “Seattle”
  • Japanese: “シアトル”
  • Kabyle: “Seattle”
  • Kalaallisut: “Seattle”
  • Kannada: “ಸಿಯಾಟಲ್”
  • Kazakh: “Сиэтл қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Сиэтл”
  • Khmer: “ស៊ីតថល”
  • Kikuyu: “Seattle”
  • Korean: “시애틀”
  • Kurdish: “Seattle”
  • Ladin: “Seattle”
  • Ladino: “Seattle”
  • Ladino: “Siatli”
  • Latin: “Seattlum”
  • Latvian: “Sietla”
  • Literary Chinese: “西雅圖”
  • Lithuanian: “Siatlas”
  • Lithuanian: “Sietlas”
  • Low German: “Seattle”
  • Luxembourgish: “Seattle”
  • Macedonian: “Сиетл”
  • Malagasy: “Seattle”
  • Malay: “Seattle”
  • Malayalam: “സിയാറ്റിൽ”
  • Maltese: “Seattle”
  • Maori: “Heātara”
  • Maori: “Seattle”
  • Marathi: “सिअ ॅटल”
  • Marathi: “सिअ‍ॅटल”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Seattle”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Seattle”
  • Mingrelian: “სიეთლი”
  • Mingrelian: “სიეტლი”
  • Moksha: “Сиетл”
  • Mongolian: “Сиэтл”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “سياتل”
  • Navajo: “Béésh Yótʼááh Ííʼáhí”
  • Northern Frisian: “Seattle”
  • Northern Sami: “Seattle”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Seattle”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Seattle”
  • Norwegian: “Seattle”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Seattle”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sīatl”
  • Oromo: “Siyaatil”
  • Ossetian: “Сиэтл”
  • Pampanga: “Seattle, Washington”
  • Pampanga: “Seattle”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੀਐਟਲ”
  • Papiamento: “Seattle”
  • Persian: “سیاتل”
  • Picard: “Seattle”
  • Piemontese: “Seattle”
  • Polish: “Seattle”
  • Portuguese: “Seattle, Washington”
  • Portuguese: “Seattle”
  • Pushto: “سیاتل”
  • Quechua: “Seattle”
  • Romanian: “Seattle”
  • Russian: “Нью-Йорк Алки”
  • Russian: “Сиетл”
  • Russian: “Сиэтл”
  • Sardinian: “Seattle”
  • Scots: “Seattle”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Seattle, Washington”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Seattle”
  • Serbian: “Сијетл”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Seattle”
  • Sicilian: “Seattle”
  • Silesian: “Seattle”
  • Sinhala: “සියැටල්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Seattle”
  • Slovak: “Seattle”
  • Slovenian: “Seattle”
  • Somali: “Seattle”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سیاتل”
  • Spanish: “Seattle (Washington)”
  • Spanish: “Seattle”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Seattle”
  • Swahili: “Seattle, Washington”
  • Swahili: “Seattle”
  • Swedish: “Seattle, WA”
  • Swedish: “Seattle, Washington”
  • Swedish: “Seattle”
  • Tagalog: “Seattle”
  • Tajik: “Сиэтл”
  • Talysh: “Sietl”
  • Tamil: “சியாட்டில்”
  • Tamil: “ஸீயாடல்”
  • Tatar: “Сиэтл”
  • Telugu: “సియాటెల్”
  • Thai: “ซีแอตเทิล”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Seattle, Washington”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Seattle”
  • Turkish: “Seattle, Washington”
  • Turkish: “Seattle”
  • Turkmen: “Sietl”
  • Twi: “Seattle”
  • Udmurt: “Сиэтл”
  • Uighur: “Séatl”
  • Ukrainian: “Сіетл”
  • Ukrainian: “Сієтл”
  • Urdu: “سیئٹل”
  • Urdu: “سیاٹل”
  • Uzbek: “Seattle”
  • Uzbek: “Sietl”
  • Venetian: “Seattle”
  • Veps: “Sietl”
  • Vietnamese: “Seattle”
  • Vlax Romani: “Seattle”
  • Volapük: “Seattle”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Seattle”
  • Welsh: “Seattle”
  • Western Armenian: “Սիէթըլ”
  • Western Frisian: “Seattle”
  • Western Mari: “Сиэтл”
  • Western Panjabi: “سیاٹل”
  • Wu Chinese: “西雅图”
  • Yakut: “Сиэтл”
  • Yiddish: “סיאטל”
  • Yoruba: “Seattle”
  • Yue Chinese: “西雅圖”
  • “Seattle”

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