Seattle, Washington
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Seattle is the largest city in the U.S. state of Washington. It is the home of the Space Needle and a monorail, which were built for the 1962 World's Fair. It is also the American headquarters of Starbucks coffee, Amazon.com, Washington Mutual, and Nordstrom. In the 1980s and 1990s, grunge music artists like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and others made the city really popular. It is also the setting of the TV shows Here Come the Brides, Frasier, and Grey's Anatomy.
Seattle has many sports teams, including the Seattle Mariners (baseball), the Seattle Supersonics (basketball), the Seattle Seahawks (American football), 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 500,000 people live in the city. More than 3,000,000 (3 million) people live in the city or near it.
The University of Washington is in Seattle.
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Maps and pictures taken from above
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- Topographic (shows how the land looks) map from TopoZone
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- Satellite image (picture from far above) from Google Local or Microsoft Virtual Earth
