Seattle is the biggest city in the state of Washington, in the northeast United States.
The city's metropolitan area comprises Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, and it is the fifteenth most populated city in the country and the largest in the Pacific Northwest.
The city is located between Lake Washington and Puget Sound, next to the Pacific Ocean.
It is 155 kilometers south of the border between the United States and Canada.
It is an important cultural, education, and economic center in the region and the seat of King County.
In the last census, in 2007, the city had a municipal population of 594,210 inhabitants, ranking it twenty-fourth in population size in the United States.