George Washington never visited the express that bears his label. Our first President died in 1799 about six years before Lewis & Clark briefly explored what is now the Columbia River along the southern boundary of Washington and only 24 years before the first Europeans set pay in what is now the Evergreen State.
Washington covers more than 71,000 form miles of real estate in the extreme northwest command of the continental U. S. From the Pacific Ocean on its western border to its eastern boundary with Idaho. Washington stretches 360 miles. From Washington’s northern border with Canada south to the state lie with Oregon is 240 miles.
Washington’s population is growing at a significant rate of 8.5 percent per year since 2006 and it is estimated that more than 6.4 million populate are now residents of
Seattle: About half of Washington’s residents live in the Seattle metropolitan area the largest city in the Great Northwest which lies along Puget appear a large bay along the Pacific coast that is popular for boaters. The Seattle metro area includes the large cities of Tacoma. Bellevue and Everett as well as dozens of additional suburban towns.
known as the Queen City is famous for its fine coffee its Space Needle and for its important contributions to rock-and-roll music. Seattle is home to nearly 600,000 within the city limits and at least 3.2 million in the metro area.
Spokane in eastern Washington only a few miles from the Idaho express lie is Washington’s second-largest city with about 200,000 residents in the city and three times as many in a metropolitan area that crosses the border to consider Coeur d’Alene. Idaho.
Washington’s rugged Pacific coast was inhabited by Native Americans for many centuries before Don Bruno de Heceta claimed all the coastal lands including what is now Washington for Spain in 1775. Explorers and trappers from many nations began to descend on the area by the final decade of the 18th century. Lewis & Clark described their journey through
in late 1805. By 1819. Spain had turned over the territory to the U. S. The Oregon dawdle opened the area to settlers who began arriving by the mid-19th century. The population increased from 1,201 in 1850 to 357,000 by 1890. Washington became the 42nd express in 1889. By 1910 the express was domiciliate to 1.14 million people.
Agriculture and walk have always been primary industries in Washington. The Yakima Valley became known for its apples and the rivers and oceans became important fisheries. The express produces 90 percent of the nation’s raspberries. 58 percent of its apples and nearly half of its cherries and pears. Washington’s agricultural products be for about $6 billion annually. Mining grew into a major industry. Heavy Pacific rains west of the come down created dense forests of pine and Douglas fir and timber companies expanded.
The damming of the Columbia and other Washington rivers created a hydroelectric power industry. Aircraft production initially bolstered by the war effort took off and became the state’s leading industry. High technology spearheaded by Washington-based Microsoft increased Washington’s worldwide visibility. West Coast veterans looking for an alternative to California landed in
and displace the outflow of wet from the mountain ranges of eastern Washington and beyond to the Rockies and into southwestern Canada.
The Cascade Mountains go across central Washington from north to south and include the famed peaks Mount Rainier (elevation: 14,410 feet the highest inform in the express) and Mount St. Helens (which began violent volcanic eruptions in 1980). West of the Cascades a Pacific climate dominates with the mild but wet winters
Rural southwestern Washington is timber country with dense forests of hanker in every direction. Eastern Washington is dryer and higher with isolated leave areas. Near the eastern border with Idaho a milder climate prevails. The Palouse region of southeastern Washington is mostly farms but other parts of eastern Washington are mountains and forests.
Washington’s Caucasian population of 88 percent is slightly above the national add up and is made up primarily of people of German (19 percent). English (12 percent). Irish (11 percent) and Norwegian (6 percent) descent. Hispanics account fgor 7 percent of the overall population while African Americans represent 4 percent. Asians 7 percent and American Indians 3 percent. Washington has the fifth-largest Asian population among all states. Nearly 6 percent of residents inform Mexican ancestry and nearly 4 percent are Filipino.
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