Seattle

**Seattle** ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Washington. It is the home of the Space Needle and a monorail, both of which were built for the 1962 World's Fair. It is also the American headquarters of Microsoft, Starbucks coffee, Boeing, Amazon.com and Nordstrom. In the 1960s and 1990s, music artists like Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and others from the city became popular. It is also the setting of the TV shows _Here Come the Brides_, _Frasier_, _Grey's Anatomy_ and _Station 19_.

Seattle has many sports teams, including the Seattle Seahawks (American football), the Seattle Mariners (baseball), the Seattle Kraken (ice hockey), the Sounders FC (soccer), and the Seattle Storm (women's basketball). Seattle has a lot of water around it, with Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean to the west and Lake Washington to the east. About 750,000 people live in the city. More than 4,000,000 (4 million) people live in the city or near it.

Seattle is home to many colleges and universities. The most notable of these are, University of Washington, and Seattle University.

Seattle has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (_Csb_ in the Köppen climate classification).

## Other websites

- Official website

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Seattle
- **settlement type**: City
- **image seal**: Seal of Seattle, Washington.png
- **blank emblem type**: Wordmark
- **blank emblem size**: 100px
- **blank emblem link**: List of U.S. county and city insignia
- **named for**: Chief Seattle, Chief Si'ahl
- **nickname**: The Emerald City, Jet City, Rain City
- **motto**: The City of Flowers, The City of Goodwill
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision name**: United States
- **subdivision type1**: U.S. state, State
- **subdivision name1**: Washington (state), Washington
- **subdivision type2**: List of counties in Washington, County
- **subdivision name2**: King County, Washington, King
- **established title1**: Founded
- **established title2**: Municipal corporation, Incorporated as a town
- **established title3**: Municipal corporation, Incorporated as a city
- **government type**: Mayor–council government, Mayor–council
- **governing body**: Seattle City Council
- **leader title**: Mayor of Seattle, Mayor
- **leader name**: Bruce Harrell (Democratic Party (United States), D)
- **unit pref**: Imperial
- **area total sq mi**: 142.07
- **area total km2**: 367.97
- **area land sq mi**: 83.99
- **area land km2**: 217.54
- **area water sq mi**: 58.08
- **area water km2**: 150.43
- **area metro sq mi**: 8,186
- **area metro km2**: 21,202
- **elevation ft**: 175
- **elevation m**: 53
- **elevation max ft**: 520
- **elevation max m**: 158
- **elevation min ft**: 0
- **elevation min m**: 0
- **population as of**: 2020 United States census, 2020
- **population total**: 737015
- **pop est as of**: 2024
- **population est**: 780,995
- **population density sq mi**: 8775.03
- **population density km2**: 3387.95
- **population metro**: 4018762 (US: List of metropolitan statistical areas, 15th)
- **population urban**: 3,544,011 (US: List of United States urban areas, 13th)
- **population density urban km2**: 1,392.7
- **population density urban sq mi**: 3,607.1
- **population demonym**: Seattleite or Seattlite
- **demographics type2**: GDP
- **demographics2 title1**: Seattle (MSA)
- **demographics2 info1**: US$479.966 billion (2021)
- **timezone**: Pacific Time Zone, Pacific (PST)
- **utc offset**: −8
- **timezone dst**: Pacific Time Zone, PDT
- **utc offset dst**: −7
- **postal code type**: ZIP Codes
- **area code**: Area code 206, 206
- **area code type**: North American Numbering Plan, Area code
- **blank name**: Federal Information Processing Standards, FIPS code
- **blank info**: 53-63000
- **blank1 name**: Geographic Names Information System, GNIS feature ID
- **blank1 info**: 1512650