Washington, officially the
State of Washington, is a
state in the
Pacific Northwest region of the
Western United States. Named for
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. It was admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889.
Olympia is the
state capital. The state's most populous city is
Seattle.
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