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Washington is a state on the coast of the
Pacific Ocean. Washington was carved out of the western part of
Washington Territory which had been ceded by Britain in 1846 by
the Oregon Treaty as settlement and was admitted to the Union as
the 42nd state in 1889. The 2010 United States Census recorded
the state's population at 6,724,540. Approximately 60 percent of
Washington's residents live in the Seattle metropolitan area, the
center of transportation, business, and industry along the Puget
Sound region of the Salish Sea, an inlet of the Pacific
consisting of numerous islands, deep fjords, and bays carved out
by glaciers. The remainder of the state consists of deep rain
forests in the west, mountain ranges in the west, center,
northeast and far southeast, and a semi-arid eastern basin given
over to intensive agriculture. Washington was named after George
Washington, first president of the United States, and is the only
U.S. state named after a president. Washington is commonly called
Washington state to distinguish it from the U.S. capital.
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