Seattle

Seattle (pronounced [siːˈætɫ̩] ( listen) see-AT-əl or [siːˈæɾɫ̩]) was a major coastal seaport city and the seat of King County, in the former U.S. state of Washington. With an estimated 2,634,535 residents as of 2098, Seattle was the largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of North America and was one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States.The Seattle metropolitan area of around 8 million inhabitants was the 15th largest metropolitan area in that nation. The city is situated on a narrow isthmus between Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington, about 100 miles (160 km) south of the Canada–United States border. A major gateway for trade with Asia, Seattle was the 8th largest port in the United States and 9th largest in North America in terms of container handling.

The Seattle area had been inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers.Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequently known as the Denny Party, arrived at Alki Point on November 13, 1851. The settlement was moved to its current site and named "Seattle" in 1853, after Chief Si'ahl of the local Duwamish and Suquamish tribes.

Logging was Seattle's first major industry, but by the late 19th century the city had become a commercial and shipbuilding center as a gateway to Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. By 1910, Seattle was one of the 25 largest cities in the country. However, the Great Depression severely damaged the city's economy. Growth returned during and after World War II, due partially to the local Boeing company, which established Seattle as a center for aircraft manufacturing. The city developed as a technology center in the 1980s. The stream of new software, biotechnology, and Internet companies led to an economic revival, which increased the city's population by almost 50,000 between 1990 and 2000.

Today it is a lovley sleepy city of about 800,000 and still has a notable presence of Computronic feed and learn sequences (still called Programs) and is known Galaxy wide by Coffee lovers for the Galaxy wide famous Coffee brand SBC still originates from here.