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Port
Townsend, Washington
Surrounded by breathtaking natural beauty, Port Townsend is an
artsy seaport with historic architecture and a
rich quality of life. Throw in
a low crime rate, a fun waterfront and unlimited
outdoor recreation, and it is a great retirement
spot.
The State of Washington
Washington
State
is located in
the Pacific Northwestern part of the
United States of
America
. It is located
just south of
British Columbia
in Canada
and just north
of
Oregon
and west of
Idaho
within the United States.
The
state itself was carved out of the western part
of the
Washington
Territory
. It was then
admitted into the union as the forty-second
state. This took place in 1889.
According
to the 2010 United States Census, there are
6,724,540 people who live within the state of
Washington. Approximately
60% of these people live within the
Seattle
metropolitan
area. This is the hub of the state whenever it
comes to transportation, business and industry
because it is where
Puget Sound
is located on
the Salish
Sea. The rest of the
state contains rain forests in the west,
mountain ranges in the center, northeast,
southeast and east, and semi-arid deserts that
are filled with agriculture.
This
state was named after George Washington who was
the first president of the
United States.
It is actually
the only state that has ever been named after a
president. In order to distinguish it from
Washington
D.C., The United
States' capital, this state is often referred
to as Washington
State
or the State of
Washington.
Of course, most
of the people who live in this state or its
neighboring states do simply call it Washington
and then they
refer to the capital as Washington
D.C.
or simply D.C.
As
for the climate, it is oceanic on the west and
much drier and semi-arid on the east.
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