Seattle
Seattle, Washington 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 Pacific Northwest, with 750,000 people in Seattle and close to four million people in the metro area.
Photo: Rattlhed, Public domain.
Popular Destinations
Capitol Hill-Central District
Capitol Hill is Seattle's most densely populated neighborhood and the heart of the city's counterculture. Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.Downtown Seattle
Packed between Elliott Bay and the hilly neighborhoods to the east, Downtown Seattle unsurprisingly contains the city's bustling financial and retail district. Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.Pioneer Square-International District
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. Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.Queen Anne-South Lake Union
Northwest of Downtown Seattle, Queen Anne is a hilly residential neighborhood with marvelous views of the city's skyline. Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.- Type: City
- Description: city in and county seat of King County, Washington, United States
- Categories: city of the United States, county seat, big city and locality
- Location: King County, Puget Sound, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
- Postal codes: 98101-98109, 98111, 98112, 98114-98119, 98121, 98122, 98124-98127, 98129, 98131, 98133, 98134, 98136, 98138, 98144-98146, 98148, 98154, 98155, 98158, 98160, 98161, 98164, 98166, 98168, 98170, 98174, 98177, 98178, 98181, 98185, 98188, 98190, 98191, 98194, 98195, 98198 and 98199
- Neighbors: Bellevue, Renton, SeaTac and Shoreline
Notable Places in the Area
Space Needle
The Space Needle is an observation tower in Seattle, Washington, United States. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Museum of Pop Culture
Museum
The Museum of Pop Culture or MoPOP is a nonprofit museum in Seattle, Washington, dedicated to contemporary popular culture. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Seattle Art Museum
Museum
The Seattle Art Museum is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington, United States. Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gum Wall
The Market Theater Gum Wall is a brick wall covered in used chewing gum under Pike Place Market in Downtown Seattle. Photo: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 3.0.Destinations
University District
The University District, or "U-District", surrounds the University of Washington in northeast Seattle. Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.North Seattle
North Seattle is a loosely-defined area, often including anything north of the Ship Canal that bisects the city. Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.Ballard
Ballard is a neighborhood in northwest Seattle. While mostly residential, the ship canal locks are a major tourist attraction. Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.West Seattle
West Seattle is the most populous district of Seattle. Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.South Seattle
South Seattle occupies a broad swath of the city between I-5 to the west and Lake Washington to the east. Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.Sodo-Georgetown
Seattle's Sodo used to be called "South of the Dome", referring to the now-demolished Kingdome; to keep some sense in the name, it is sometimes explained now as "South of Downtown". Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.Fremont
Seattle's Fremont district, which bills itself as "The Center of the Universe", is known for its quirky atmosphere. Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.Localities in the Area
Eastlake
Neighborhood
Eastlake is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, so named because of its location on the eastern shore of Lake Union. Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Capitol Hill
Suburb
Capitol Hill is a densely populated residential district in Seattle, Washington, United States. Photo: Dllu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Columbia City
Neighborhood
Columbia City is a neighborhood located in the southeastern part of Seattle, Washington in the Rainier Valley district. Photo: Mattgrundy, CC BY 3.0.
Seattle
Latitude
47.6038° or 47° 36' 14" northLongitude
-122.3301° or 122° 19' 48" westPopulation
737,000Elevation
184 feet (56 metres)IATA airport code
SEAUnited Nations Location Code
US SEAOpen Location Code
84VVJM39+GXOpenStreetMap ID
node 29546940GeoNames ID
5809844Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Seattle
- Afrikaans: Seattle
- Akan: Seattle
- Albanian: Seattle
- Albanian: Siatëll
- Amharic: ስያትል
- Arabic: Seattle
- Arabic: سياتل
- Arabic: سياتيل، واشنطن
- Armenian: Սիեթլ
- Asturian; Bable: Seattle, WA
- Asturian; Bable: Seattle, Washington
- Asturian; Bable: Seattle
- Azerbaijani: Sietl
- Bambara: Seattle
- Bashkir: Сиэтл
- Basque: Seattle
- Bavarian: Seattle
- Belarusian: Сіетл
- Belarusian: Сіэтл
- Bengali: সিয়াটল
- Bengali: সিয়াটেল
- Bosnian: Seattle
- Breton: Seattle
- Bulgarian: Сиатъл
- Catalan: Seattle
- Cebuano: Seattle
- 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
- Danish: Seattle
- Dimli: Seattle
- Dutch: Seattle
- Egyptian Spoken Arabic: سياتل
- Emiliano-Romagnolo: Seattle
- English: Duwamps
- English: New York Alki
- English: Seattle, WA
- English: Seattle, Washington
- Esperanto: Seatlo
- Esperanto: Seattle
- Estonian: Seattle
- Faroese: Seattle
- Finnish: Seattle, Washington
- Finnish: Seattle
- French: Seattle
- Frisian: Seattle
- Gaelic (Scots): Seattle, Washington
- Gaelic (Scots): Seattle
- Gallegan: Seattle
- Gan Chinese: 西雅圖
- Georgian: სიეტლი
- German: Seattle
- German: Seattle, WA
- German: Seattle, Washington
- Gothic: 𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌻
- Greek: Σιάτλ, Ουάσιγκτον
- Greek: Σιάτλ, Ουάσινγκτον
- Greek: Σιάτλ
- Gujarati: સિએટલ
- Haitian; Haitian Creole: Seattle, Washington
- Haitian; Haitian Creole: Seattle
- Hakka Chinese: Seattle
- Hausa: 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 (International Auxiliary Language Association): Seattle
- Irish: Seattle, Washington
- Irish: Seattle
- Italian: Emerald City
- Italian: Seattle
- Japanese: シアトル
- Kabyle: Seattle
- Kalaallisut: Seattle
- Kannada: ಸಿಯಾಟಲ್
- Kazakh: Сиэтл
- Kazakh: Сиэтл қаласы
- Khmer: ស៊ីតថល
- Kikuyu: Seattle
- Korean: 시애틀
- Kurdish: Seattle
- Ladino: Seattle
- Lao: Seattle
- Latin: Seattlum
- Latvian: Sietla
- Letzeburgesch: Seattle
- Lithuanian: Sietlas
- Low German; Low Saxon: Seattle
- Macedonian: Сиетл
- Malagasy: Seattle
- Malay (generic): Seattle
- Maltese: Seattle
- Maori: Heātara
- Maori: Seattle
- Marathi: सिअ ॅटल
- Marathi: सिअॅटल
- Min Dong Chinese: Seattle
- Min Nan Chinese: Seattle
- Mingrelian: სიეთლი
- Mingrelian: სიეტლი
- Mongolian: Сиэтл
- Navajo: Béésh Yótʼááh Ííʼáhí
- Northern Sami: Seattle
- Norwegian: Seattle
- Norwegian Bokmål: Seattle
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Seattle
- Occitan (post 1500); Provençal: Seattle
- Oromo: Siyaatil
- Ossetian; Ossetic: Сиэтл
- Pampanga: Seattle, Washington
- Pampanga: Seattle
- Panjabi: ਸੀਐਟਲ
- Papiamento: Seattle
- Persian: سیاتل
- Picard: Seattle
- Piemontese: Seattle
- Polish: Seattle
- Portuguese: Seattle
- Pushto: سیاتل
- Quechua: Seattle
- Romanian: Seattle
- Russian: Сиетл
- Russian: Сиэтл
- Sardinian: Seattle
- Scots: Seattle
- Serbian: Сијетл
- Serbo-Croatian: Seattle
- Sicilian: Seattle
- Sinhalese: සියැටල්
- Skolt Sami: Seattle
- Slovak: Seattle
- Slovenian: Seattle, Washington
- Slovenian: Seattle
- Somali: Seattle
- South Azerbaijani: سیاتل
- Spanish: Seattle
- Spanish: Seattle, Washington
- Sranan: Seattle
- Swahili (generic): Seattle
- Swedish: Seattle, WA
- Swedish: Seattle, Washington
- Swedish: Seattle
- Tagalog: Seattle
- Tajik: Сиэтл
- Tamil: சியாட்டில்
- Tamil: ஸீயாடல்
- Tatar: Сиэтл
- Tatar: Сиәтл
- 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
- Volapük: Seattle
- Waray (Philippines): Seattle
- Welsh: Seattle
- Western Mari: Сиэтл
- Western Panjabi: سیاٹل
- Wu Chinese: 西雅图
- Yakut: Сиэтл
- Yiddish: סיאטל
- Yoruba: Seattle
- Yue Chinese: 西雅圖
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Popular Destinations in King County
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