page_title: Spokane, Washington
section_title: Cityscape
hierarchical_section_title: Spokane, Washington / Cityscape
caption_attribution_description: English: Panorama of Downtown Spokane, Washington looking north. Taken 3 August 2007 from the parking lot of Deaconess Medical Center.
context_page_description: Spokane is a city in and the county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States. It is in eastern Washington along the Spokane River adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, 92 miles south of the Canada–U.S. border, 18 miles west of the Washington–Idaho border, and 279 miles east of Seattle along Interstate 90.
  Spokane is the economic and cultural center of the Spokane metropolitan area, the Spokane–Coeur d'Alene combined statistical area, and the Inland Northwest. It is known as the birthplace of Father's Day, and its official nickname is the "Lilac City". A pink double flower cultivar of the common lilac, known as Syringa vulgaris 'Spokane', is named for the city. The city and the wider Inland Northwest area are served by Spokane International Airport, 5 miles west of downtown Spokane. According to the 2010 Census, Spokane had a population of 208,916, making it the second-largest city in Washington, and the 100th-largest city in the United States. In 2019, the United States Census Bureau estimated the city's population at 222,081 and the population of the Spokane Metropolitan Area at 573,493.
caption: Panorama of Downtown Spokane looking north from the Deaconess Medical Center parking garage.
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