Washington Cultural Information
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Washington State is known for mountains, multiple national parks, as a college basketball capital, as well as for its agricultural.
Washington is known for many things, but it is truly famous worldwide for the city of Seattle. The largest city in the state and in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, Seattle metro has a population of more than four million.
Washington Motto
Into the Future is Washington’s unofficial motto. Originally from “Alki” (or Al-ki), a native American word meaning “bye and bye” which evolved to mean “into the future”.
- Spoken Languages: English: 82.51 &• Spanish: 7.79% • Other: 10.20%
- Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. At 71,362 square miles (184,830 km2), and with more than 7.7 million residents in 2021, it is the seventeenth-largest U.S. state.
- Named after George Washington—the first U.S. president—the state was formed from the western part of the Washington Territory, which was ceded by the British Empire in 1846, by the Oregon Treaty in the settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute.
- The state is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, Oregon to the south, Idaho to the east, and the Canadian province of British Columbia to the north. Olympia is the state capital; the state’s largest city is Seattle.
- Washington is often referred to as Washington state to distinguish it from the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C.
- The remainder of the state consists of deep temperate rainforests in the west; mountain ranges in the west, central, northeast, and far southeast; and a semi-arid basin region in the east, central, and south, given over to intensive agriculture.
- Washington is the second most popular state on the West Coast and in the Western United States, after California.
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What is Washington famous for?
Washington is famous for Starbucks and several other companies that are household names in the U.S. The best known is undoubtedly Starbucks, the coffee giant that has more than 15,000 stores in the U.S. alone, and over 30,000 locations worldwide. Washington is also famous as the home of Amazon, Nordstrom, Microsoft, Costco, and Alaska Airlines
Most Popular Sports in Washington.
Ice Hockey is revealed as the Washington’s favorite sport, shortly followed by Soccer, baseball and football! Washington is home to seven professional sports teams such as Seattle Kraken – National Hockey League, Reign FC – National Women’s Soccer League,Seattle Seahawks – National Football League and more.
What is cool about Washington?
Washington is known as the home of Grunge music, an alternative rock genre that emerged in Seattle in the mid-1980s. A combination of punk rock and heavy metal, famous bands included Nirvana (fronted by Kurt Cobain), Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots. Also known as “the Seattle Sound” this wildly popular musical format spread quickly from coast to coast.
