what region is puyallup in?
Puyallup, Washington (i/pjuËÃ¦lÉp/ pew-al-Ép or /pjuËÉËlÉp/ pew-awl-Ép) is a city in Pierce County, Washington about five miles (8 km) east of Tacoma. The population was 37,022 at the 2010 Census. Native Americans numbered about 2,000 in what is now the Puyallup Valley in the 1830s and 1840s.