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This is information Seattle is one of the important seaports situated in United States. ‘Seattle ’ was named after Chief Sealth, who belonged to the Duwamish and Suquamish tribe community. King County’s county seat is Seattle. It is the 15th largest city present in the north western part of United States. It is also a prime center for educational, cultural and an economic center in the northwestern region. This city has an official nick name called “Emerald City” due to the presence of lush evergreen forests present over there. Informally Seattle has many names like “Rain City”, “Gateway to Alaska” and “Jet City”. The name Jet City is derived because of presence of Boeing’s influence. The city is also one among the major earthquake zones present in whole world due to its position on Pacific Ring of fire. Seattle has many land marks namely the Space needle which is the recognized and famous land mark present over there. Apart from that the other famous land marks include Smith Tower, Columbia Center (76 storied building), the Washington Mutual Tower, Fremont Troll, Pike Place Market, Seattle Central Library and the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. USA’s famous coffee company namely “Star Bucks” was founded in the year 1971 at Seattle and is still being there at Pike Place Market since its establishment. The city is renowned for performing arts and is a regional center too. Seattle prominent festival occasions and celebrations include the following: Northwest Folk life celebrations during Memorial Day Weekend, Seattle International Film Festival, wide-range of Seafair events, Bumbershoot festival, largest Gay Pride celebration namely “Bite of Seattle”, Labor Day weekend celebrations, Seattle Hempfest and Independence day celebration where minimum of 100,000 visitors are expected to attend the celebrations. Some of the featured ethnic events conducted at Seattle include Native American pow-wows and many others. A huge range of annual events are also conducted namely Sakura-Con, Penny Arcade Expo, Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair and Book Arts Show, Seattle to Portland Bicycle and many more. There are many galleries and museum’s present at Seattle. Some of them include Seattle Art Museum, Henry Art Gallery, Museum of History and Industry, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Center for Wooden Boats, NorthWest Seaport, Museum of Flight, Seattle Metropolitan Police Museum, Soil Art Gallery, Nordic Heritage Museum, Wing Luke Asian Museum, Northwest African American Museum, Crawl Space Gallery, Woodland Park Zoo and numerous recreational community centers.
