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Olympia is the capital city of the U.S. state of Washington.It had a population of 55,605 at the 2020 census, making it the state of Washington's 23rd-most populous city.It is the seat of Thurston County and borders Lacey to the east and Tumwater to the south.
From 2010 to 2020, the county's population became more ethnically diverse, with the number of residents who identify as Hispanic or Latino increasing by 63.2%. [26] The county's largest city is Lacey, which has an estimated population of over 60,000 and surpassed Olympia's population in the early 2020s. [27]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [4] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
King County, home to the state's largest city, Seattle, holds almost 30 percent of Washington's population (2,271,380 residents of 7,812,880 in 2023), and has the highest population density, with more than 1,000 people per square mile (400/km 2). Garfield County is both the least populated (2,363) and least densely populated (3.3/sq mi [1.3/km 2]).
The Tri-Cities population grew to an estimated 316,600 this spring, a gain of nearly 13,000 people since the 2020 Census. With a 4.3% growth rate, the Tri-Cities is outpacing Washington state ...
Map of Washington's congressional districts from 2023 Interactive map version. The following is a list of the ten congressional districts in the U.S. state of Washington.From the time that Washington Territory was formed in 1853, through statehood in 1889, Washington Territory elected an at-large non-voting Delegate to the United States House of Representatives.
Western Washington is known as having a far wetter climate than the eastern portion of the state, primarily due to the effects of the Cascades' rain shadow. The average location in Eastern Washington only receives an average of 46.87 centimetres (18.45 inches) of precipitation per year, [ 1 ] whereas the average place in Western Washington ...
Washington's population was 7,705,281 in the 2020 census, [129] a 14.6% increase since the 2010 census. [130] In 2020, the state ranked 13th overall in population, and was the third most populous, after California and Texas, west of the Mississippi River. [131]