New year, new destination: Seattle! Seattle is a coastal seaport city in the US state of Washington. It is the largest city in both the State of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America and the fastest-growing major city in the United States.
The Seattle metropolitan area of around 3.6 million inhabitants is the 15th largest metropolitan area in the United States. Seattle is also the 8th largest port in the United States and the 9th in North America.
Apart from this, Seattle is also famous for its musical history. From 1918 to 1951, there were nearly two dozen of jazz nightclubs in the city; and it is the birthplace of rock musician Jimmy Hendrix and the alternative rock style grunge.
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