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Seattle is the most populous city in Washington state and the Pacific Northwest, ranking 18th nationally with 784,777 residents in 2025, while its metropolitan area of over 4.15 million is the 15th-largest in the nation. Located on an isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington about 100 miles south of the Canadian border, Seattle serves as a major Asia-Pacific trade gateway through the Port of Seattle, the fourth-largest container port in North America as of 2021. The city's history spans at least 4,000 years of Native American habitation by tribes including the Duwamish before Arthur A. Denny and the Denny Party arrived in November 1851; it was later named after Chief Seattle, a prominent Duwamish and Suquamish leader. Seattle's economy evolved from logging and shipbuilding during the Klondike Gold Rush to aircraft manufacturing led by Boeing after World War II and technology innovation beginning in the 1980s with Microsoft's headquarters, driving population growth of nearly 50,000 between 1990 and 2000 and a 21.1% increase from 2010 to 2020. The city is renowned for its musical heritage, from a historic jazz scene on Jackson Street featuring Ray Charles and Quincy Jones to grunge pioneers like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden, and artists including Jimi Hendrix and the Foo Fighters. Kirkland is a city in King County, Washington, located east of Seattle, with a population of 92,175 according to the 2020 U.S. census, making it the sixth largest city in King County and twelfth largest in the state. The city was founded in 1888 by British businessman Peter Kirk and Seattle Post-Intelligencer owner Leigh S. J. Hunt through the Kirkland Land and Development Company, built around the Moss Bay Iron and Steel Company of America to fulfill Kirk's vision of a "Pittsburgh of the West." Kirkland's downtown waterfront features restaurants, art galleries, a performing arts center, public parks, beaches, and bronze sculptures, and the area was originally inhabited by Duwamish bands including the x̌ačua'bš ("lake people") who harvested salmon, venison, and wapato plants. The city is known as the former home of the Seattle Seahawks (1976-1985 and through 2007 at nearby Northwest University), the original headquarters of warehouse chain Costco (which still uses "Kirkland Signature" as its store brand), and the founding location of video game company Valve. Bainbridge Island is a city and island in Kitsap County, Washington, located in Puget Sound as the second-largest city in the county with a 2020 population of 24,825, encompassing the entire island within its city limits. The island, inhabited for thousands of years by the Suquamish people in nine villages, was explored by English Captain George Vancouver in 1792 and named in 1841 by US Navy Lieutenant Charles Wilkes after Commodore William Bainbridge of the USS Constitution, with early settlers using it as a center for logging and shipbuilding before the Suquamish ceded their territory via the 1855 Point Elliott Treaty. Japanese immigrants arrived in 1883, and Japanese-American residents were the first on the West Coast to be sent to internment camps during World War II, a history commemorated by the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial opened in 2011. Connected to Seattle via a 35-minute Washington State Ferries route and accessible by State Route 305 and the Agate Pass Bridge, Bainbridge Island has been an increasingly affluent Seattle suburb since the 1960s. The city consolidated its boundaries on February 28, 1991, when the 1.5-square-mile city of Winslow, incorporated in 1947, annexed the remainder of the island following a narrowly passed November 1990 referendum.