The most populated city in the Pacific Northwest region of North America and the U.S. state of Washington is Seattle. With 780,995 residents as of 2024, it ranks as the 18th most populated city in the US. However, with more than 4.15 million inhabitants, the Seattle metropolitan region ranks as the 15th most populated metropolitan area in the US. King County, Washington's most populated the county, has its county seat in the city. Seattle was one of the fastest-growing big cities in the nation, with a growth rate of 21.1% between 2010 and 2020. Seattle is located on an isthmus that separates Lake Washington from Puget Sound, a Pacific Ocean inlet. Situated roughly 100 miles (160 km) south of the Canadian border, it is the northernmost major city in the United States. As of 2021, the Port of Seattle, which serves as a gateway for trade with East Asia, ranked fourth in North America for container handling. Before the first permanent European settlers arrived, Native Americans (including the Duwamish, who had at least 17 communities surrounding Elliot Bay) had lived in the Seattle area for at least 4,000 years.14 On November 13, 1851, Arthur A. Denny and his party of travelers—later dubbed the Denny Party—arrived at Alki Point on the schooner Exact from Illinois via Portland, Oregon.Named ""Seattle"" for Chief Seattle, a notable 19th-century chief of the nearby Duwamish and Suquamish tribes, the settlement was relocated to Elliott Bay's eastern side in 1852.

Covering 19,623 km2 (7,576 sq mi), Kruger National Park is located in the northeastern South African provinces of Mpumalanga and Limpopo. It stretches 65 km (40 mi) from east to west and 360 km (220 mi) from north to south. Skukuza is home to the administrative headquarters. The South African Republic's government first protected portions of the park in 1898, and in 1926 it was designated as the country's first national park. It is a part of the biosphere reserve known as the Kruger to Canyons Biosphere. Kruger National Park is home to all five of the big game creatures and boasts 147 species of large mammals, more than any other game reserve in Africa. Webcams have been installed to watch the wildlife. There are believed to be just 400 African wild dog packs in all of South Africa, and Kruger is home to packs of these endangered animals. There is a reasonably consistent group of bird species from the park's southern to central regions, but the mopane-dominated flatlands north of the Olifants show a fall in richness.The larger birds of prey, on the other hand, breed during the dry winter, when their prey is most exposed, whereas the majority of species breed during the summer, when rainfall sustain the majority of vegetable and animal food. In 1918, Kruger National Park was declared, and a commission was formed to oversee its development and planning. A government officer named Johannes Andries (Dries) de Ridder served as the commission's first secretary. After 44 years in charge of the Kruger Park, Warden James Stevenson-Hamilton retired on April 30, 1946. Colonel J. A. B. Sandenbergh of the South African Air Force took his post. The government forcibly removed the Makuleke people from the northern portion of the park in 1969, and approximately 1500 of them were relocated to territory in the south so that their original tribal lands could be incorporated into the larger Kruger National Park. The famed Big Five (lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros, and buffalo) are among the remarkably diverse species that makes Kruger National Park famous. The park, which spans about two million hectares, draws tourists from all around the world with its unmatched wildlife viewing opportunities.