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Greater Seattle
Seattle is an amazing city located
in an unique spot on this earth.
Actually, on this page we are talking about the Greater Seattle Area
which consists of 24 cities as far
north as Shoreline (10 mi. north of downtown Seattle) to as far south of
Seattle as Des Moines, Kent, and Auburn,
areas nearly to Tacoma which is about 20 miles south of downtown
Seattle. The western boundary of the
Greater Seattle Area is the Puget Sound shoreline which runs right along  Seattle and the eastern boundary is the summit of
the Cascade Mountains which includes the cities of Issaquah, North Bend, and Snoqualmie Pass
which is 50 miles east of Seattle
Where is the Greater Seattle Metropolitan Area?
Greater
Seattle is actually King County, in Washington State in which the cities of:
Shoreline, Kenmore, Bothell,
Woodinville, Redmond, Kirkland, Bellevue, Seattle, Mercer Island,
Issaquah, North Bend, Renton, Tukwila, Burien, SeaTac, Des Moines, Kent,
Federal Way, Auburn, and Puyallup,
Washington reside. The county’s
west boundary is Puget Sound and its east boundary is the divide of the Cascade Mountains.
It is located in the center of Western Washington. This county contains the largest population
in Washington State.
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Lake Washington
Lake Washington, the second largest fresh water body in
the State of Washington, is the City of Seattle’s eastern
border and lies in the center of the Greater Seattle Metropolitan Area. Further to the east lies another large
lake, Lake Sammamish. Both lakes are long and narrow and run
north and south.
The Largest Ferry Fleet
in the United States
The State of Washington
has the largest fleet of ferries in the world connecting the Seattle
Metropolitan Area to the Olympic Peninsula and Northwest Washington to the
San Juan Islands, and Vancouver
Island, Canada. There is a large population of Seattle workers that
commute to the city by ferry from the two peninsulas and Bainbridge and
Vashon islands.
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The
Topography of Greater Seattle
Seattle is located on the
western coastal plain of the Cascade Mountain Range where it meets Puget Sound. Seattle is located approximately 100 miles inland from  the
Pacific Ocean on a huge inland sound of the Pacific Ocean called Puget Sound.
Puget Sound is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Strait of Juan de
Fuca, which separates the Olympic Peninsula from Vancouver Island, Canada. Downtown Seattle lies on a small strip of
land, only 3 miles wide at its narrowest point, which separates the Puget
Sound from Lake Washington. Lake
Washington is the largest lake in Washington
State being 18 miles
long and 3 miles wide at its widest point.
Four miles east of Lake Washington is Lake Sammamish,
which is almost 10 miles long and lies up against the foothills of the
Cascade Mountain Range. As if that is not enough water, Lake
Union lies just north of downtown Seattle
and is connected to Puget Sound by the Hiram Chittenden Locks and to Lake
Washington by the Ship Canal which allows seagoing ships into Lake Washington.
The photo at the right is of Lake Union from the Ship Canal Bridge on
Interstate 5 looking west at the Space Needle.
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