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Washington , officially the State of Washington , is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States . It is often referred to as Washington State to distinguish it from the national capital , both named after George Washington (the first U.S. president ). Washington borders the Pacific Ocean to the west, Oregon to the south, Idaho to the east, and shares an international border with the Canadian province of British Columbia to the north. Olympia is the state capital , and the most populous city is Seattle .
Washington is the 18th-largest state , with an area of 71,362 square miles (184,830 km2 ), and the 13th-most populous state, with a population of just less than 8 million. The majority of Washington's residents live in the Seattle metropolitan area , the center of transportation, business, and industry on Puget Sound , an inlet of the Pacific Ocean consisting of numerous islands, deep fjords and bays carved out by glaciers. The remainder of the state consists of deep temperate rainforests in the west; mountain ranges in the west, center, northeast, and far southeast, and a semi-arid basin region in the east, center, and south, given over to intensive agriculture. Washington is the second most populous state on the West Coast and in the Western United States, after California . Mount Rainier , an active stratovolcano , is the state's highest elevation at 14,411 feet (4,392 meters), and is the most topographically prominent mountain in the contiguous U.S.
Washington is a leading lumber producer, the largest producer of apples, hops, pears, blueberries, spearmint oil, and sweet cherries in the U.S., and ranks high in the production of apricots, asparagus, dry edible peas, grapes, lentils, peppermint oil, and potatoes. Livestock, livestock products, and commercial fishing—particularly of salmon , halibut , and bottomfish —are also significant contributors to the state's economy. Washington ranks third in wine production. Manufacturing industries in Washington include aircraft, missiles, shipbuilding, and other transportation equipment, food processing, metals, and metal products, chemicals, and machinery. (Full article... )
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Seattle Sounders FC is an American professional soccer club based in Seattle . The Sounders compete in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Western Conference . The club was established on November 13, 2007, and began play in 2009 as an MLS expansion team . The Sounders are a phoenix club , replacing the second-division franchise that played in the American Professional Soccer League (APSL), A-League , and USL First Division (USL-1) from 1994 to 2008, and carrying the same name as the original Sounders franchise that competed in the North American Soccer League (NASL) from 1974 to 1983.
The club's majority owner is Adrian Hanauer , and its minority owners are the estate of Paul Allen , Drew Carey , and 14 families from the Seattle area. Former USL-1 Sounders coach and assistant coach Brian Schmetzer took over as head coach in July 2016 after the departure of Sigi Schmid . The Sounders play their home league matches at Lumen Field , with a reduced capacity of 37,722 seats for most matches. Along with several organized groups, a 53-member marching band called "Sound Wave" supports the club at each home match. Seattle has longstanding rivalries with fellow Pacific Northwest clubs Portland Timbers and Vancouver Whitecaps FC , with whom it competes for the Cascadia Cup . (Full article... )
The paleofauna of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands consists of Early Eocene arthropods, vertebrates, plus rare nematodes and molluscs found in geological formations of the northwestern North American Eocene Okanagan Highlands . The highlands lake bed series' as a whole are considered one of the great Canadian Lagerstätten . The paleofauna represents that of a late Ypresian upland temperate ecosystem immediately after the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum , and before the increased cooling of the middle and late Eocene to Oligocene. The fossiliferous deposits of the region were noted as early as 1873, with small amounts of systematic work happening in the 1880-90s on British Columbian sites, and 1920-30s for Washington sites. Focus and more detailed descriptive work on the Okanagan Highlands site started in the last 1970's. Most of the highlands sites are preserved as compression-impression fossils in "shales ", but also includes a rare permineralized biota and an amber biota.
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The following are images from various Washington (state)-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1 Azwell, WA , a small community of
pickers ' cabins and apple
orchards (from
Washington (state) )
Image 2 Starbucks headquarters, Seattle (from
Washington (state) )
Image 4 Washington governor
Isaac Stevens , pictured here in 1862, was joined by Oregon governor
George Curry in calling for the dismissal of
Gen. Wool . (from
History of Washington (state) )
Image 5 1893 advert from the People's Shoe Store, a business looking to capitalize on the boom of populism throughout the state. (from
History of Washington (state) )
Image 6 Washington's national forests (from
Washington (state) )
Image 7 Map of the
Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806, northwest through the newly-acquired
Louisiana Purchase of 1803. (from
History of Washington (state) )
Image 8 Washington's national forests (from
Washington (state) )
Image 9 Microsoft Corporation headquarters in
Redmond , an
Eastside suburb of Seattle (from
Washington (state) )
Image 10 Fur trading at
Fort Nez Percés in 1841 (from
Washington (state) )
Image 12 A farm and barren hills near
Riverside , in north-central Washington (from
Washington (state) )
Image 13 Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress bombers under construction, circa
1942 (from
Washington (state) )
Image 15 Watercolor of the
United States Army building
Robert's Redoubt under command of then 2nd Lt.
Henry Martyn Robert (1837-1923), and then Captain
George Pickett (1825-1875), on the off-shore
San Juan Island in the
San Juan Islands chain in the old federal
Washington Territory (1853-1889), during the border dispute and skirmish of the so-called
Pig War of 1859. (from
History of Washington (state) )
Image 16 Race and Hispanic origin of Washington by county, showing race by color, and then breaking down non-Hispanic and Hispanic origin by color tone. The county population is shown by size and by the label. The same data on the map below shows non-Hispanic and Hispanic origin first and then breaks that down by race using color tone. (from
Washington (state) )
Image 17 Starbucks headquarters, Seattle (from
Washington (state) )
Image 18 Washington population density map (from
Washington (state) )
Image 19 A photograph of
John McGraw , who helped lead militias in defense of Chinese American citizens. (from
History of Washington (state) )
Image 22 Flag of Washington prior to the 1967 adoption of a new seal and standardization (from
History of Washington (state) )
Image 23 Microsoft Corporation headquarters in
Redmond , an
Eastside suburb of Seattle (from
Washington (state) )
Image 24 The same race and origin data as above, but the Hispanic origin is grouped first, then by race. The first emphasizes the racial diversity of people of Hispanic origin, while the second grouping gives a clearer indication of the total Hispanic population. (from
Washington (state) )
Image 26 Seattle in 1887 (from
Washington (state) )
Image 29 Dryland farming caused a large
dust storm in arid parts of Eastern Washington on October 4, 2009. Courtesy: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response. (from
Washington (state) )
Image 31 Race and Hispanic origin of Washington by county, showing race by color, and then breaking down non-Hispanic and Hispanic origin by color tone. The county population is shown by size and by the label. The same data on the map below shows non-Hispanic and Hispanic origin first and then breaks that down by race using color tone. (from
Washington (state) )
Image 34 A farm and barren hills near
Riverside , in north-central Washington (from
Washington (state) )
Image 35 The same race and origin data as above, but the Hispanic origin is grouped first, then by race. The first emphasizes the racial diversity of people of Hispanic origin, while the second grouping gives a clearer indication of the total Hispanic population. (from
Washington (state) )
Image 36 Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from
Washington (state) )
Image 39 Death of General Isaac Stevens , a lithograph by
Alonzo Chappel (from
History of Washington (state) )
Image 41 Republican Governor Henry McBride , who successfully fought against the railroads and preserved many Populist policies. (from
History of Washington (state) )
Image 42 Floating bridges on
Lake Washington . These are among the largest of their kind in the world. (from
Washington (state) )
Image 44 Floating bridges on
Lake Washington . These are among the largest of their kind in the world. (from
Washington (state) )
Image 45 Depiction of the First Charge at the
Battle of Walla Walla 1855. (from
History of Washington (state) )
Image 46 Washington experiences extensive variation in rainfall. (from
Washington (state) )
Image 47 A portrait from the late
18th century by an unknown artist, believed to depict Captain
George Vancouver (1757-1798), a
British naval explorer in 1792, who claimed the territory of modern-day
Washington state in the
Pacific Northwest region along the
West Coast of
North America for the
United Kingdom /
British Empire and named the inlet / bay of
Puget Sound . (from
History of Washington (state) )
Image 48 Governor of
British Columbia ,
Sir James Douglas , who pushed for the
annexation of Washington Territory during the
US Civil War . (from
History of Washington (state) )
Image 49 The federal
Oregon Territory (August 1848 to February 1859), carved out of the American southern portion of the former
Oregon Country (1818-1846) with the
Oregon Treaty of June 15, 1846, signed in the federal national
capital city of
Washington, D.C. , between the
United States and
Great Britain (old
United Kingdom /
British North America of the
British Empire ) as originally laid out and organized, in 1848 until 1853, with separation of old
Washington Territory to the north and east, up to statehood of
Oregon in 1859. (from
History of Washington (state) )
Image 50 Chief Leschi as he appeared in the 1850s (from
History of Washington (state) )
Image 51 Boeing B-17E Flying Fortress bombers under construction, circa
1942 (from
Washington (state) )
Image 52 The former offices of the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer , a major daily newspaper (from
Washington (state) )
Image 53 Cannabis café in
Bellingham . Since
Initiative 502 in 2012, it is legal to sell or possess cannabis for recreational or medical use. (from
Washington (state) )
Image 54 Washington population density map (from
Washington (state) )
Image 57 Statehood ceremony in
Olympia , November 1889. (from
History of Washington (state) )
Image 58 Lewis and Clark 's expedition
Corps of Discovery meet the
Chinooks on the
Lower Columbia River in October 1805, (
Lewis and Clark on the Lower Columbia , artwork painted by
Charles Marion Russel (1864-1926), a century later after the event
c. 1905) (from
History of Washington (state) )
Image 60 The
Washington State Ferries owns the largest ferry system in the United States. (from
Washington (state) )
Image 61 The
Washington State Ferries owns the largest ferry system in the United States. (from
Washington (state) )
Image 62 Cannabis café in
Bellingham . Since
Initiative 502 in 2012, it is legal to sell or possess cannabis for recreational or medical use. (from
Washington (state) )
Image 63 The Oregon Territory (blue) with the Washington Territory (green) in 1853 (from
History of Washington (state) )
Image 64 The former offices of the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer , a major daily newspaper (from
Washington (state) )
Image 65 Seattle in 1887 (from
Washington (state) )
Image 67 Washington's
state flag since 1967 (from
History of Washington (state) )
Image 68 Washington experiences extensive variation in rainfall. (from
Washington (state) )
Image 70 Early eruption of Mt. St. Helens (from
Washington (state) )
Image 73 Azwell, WA , a small community of
pickers ' cabins and apple
orchards (from
Washington (state) )
Image 74 Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election (from
Washington (state) )
Image 75 Early eruption of Mt. St. Helens (from
Washington (state) )
Image 76 The
Grand Coulee Dam was the largest dam in the world at the time of its construction (from
History of Washington (state) )
Image 77 Dryland farming caused a large
dust storm in arid parts of Eastern Washington on October 4, 2009. Courtesy: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response. (from
Washington (state) )
Image 78 Fur trading at
Fort Nez Percés in 1841 (from
Washington (state) )
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