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Vancouver, Washington is a city in Clark County located on the north bank of the Columbia River directly north of Portland, Oregon, with a 2020 population of 190,915 making it Washington's fourth-most populous city. Founded in 1825 around Fort Vancouver, a Hudson's Bay Company fur trading post established after the 1846 Oregon Treaty gave the United States control of the region, the city was incorporated in 1857 and serves as Clark County's seat. The area was originally inhabited by Chinook and Klickitat nations until European contact in 1792 and subsequent diseases devastated the indigenous population from an estimated 80,000 to only dozens by the mid-1800s. The city shares its name with Vancouver, British Columbia, approximately 300 miles north, both named after British sea captain George Vancouver, though the Washington city predates its Canadian counterpart by 29 years of incorporation and over 60 years of initial naming. Vancouver is part of the Portland metropolitan area and has been locally nicknamed "The 'Couv(e)" to distinguish it from its larger northern namesake. Olympia is the capital and only capital city in Washington state's history as both territory and state, located 50 miles southwest of Seattle in Thurston County with a 2020 population of 55,605 and a metropolitan area of approximately 300,000. Indigenous Lushootseed-speaking Squaxin peoples inhabited the southern Puget Sound region for thousands of years before European contact in 1792, with the Treaties of Medicine Creek (1854) and Olympia (1856) forcibly relocating them to reservations and sparking the Puget Sound War. Edmund Sylvester and Levi Lathrop Smith claimed the downtown land in 1846, and the city was incorporated as a town on January 28, 1859, becoming a city in 1882 after being declared territorial capital by Governor Isaac I. Stevens in November 1853. Olympia gained international recognition in the 1990s as a countercultural hub and epicenter of Pacific Northwest punk rock movements including riot grrrl and grunge, and is home to The Evergreen State College with its non-traditional liberal arts curriculum. The city operates Intercity Transit, a fare-free bus system with exceptionally high per-capita ridership for its size. Lynden is a city in Whatcom County, Washington, located 15 miles north of Bellingham and approximately 5 miles south of the Canada-U.S. border, making it the second largest city in the county with a 2020 census population of 15,749 that grew to 16,551 by 2024. Founded in 1870 by Phoebe Judson and her husband Holden on Nooksack lands and officially incorporated on March 16, 1891, the city was named after the Bavarian town Hohenlinden as described in Thomas Campbell's poem due to its similar hillside-by-river geography. The region's economy developed around logging in the 1870s, followed by dairy farming and raspberry, strawberry, and blueberry cultivation after World War I, while significant Dutch immigration in the early-to-mid 20th century shaped the city's identity, with 28 Dutch Calvinist churches established by 1995 and 30 percent of residents claiming Dutch ancestry by 2010. Lynden is known for its promoted Dutch heritage including the Holland Days spring festival and Sinterklaas celebrations, its role as home to the annual Northwest Washington Fair, and as a notable site of a 2005 cross-border drug smuggling tunnel discovery. The city's location along the Nooksack River and State Route 539 in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate with mild year-round temperatures has made it a regional destination and attracted notable political attention, including a 2016 presidential campaign rally by Donald Trump.