Washington
- Aberdeen - Port of Missing Men
- Algona - City of the Great Blue Heron
- Auburn - More Than You Imagined
- Bellevue - City in a Park
- Bellingham
- City of Subdued Excitement
- Let Us Surprise You
- Blaine - The Peace Arch City
- Bothell - For a Day or a Lifetime
- Burlington - The Hub City
- Chehalis - Rose City
- Colville - Washington's Most Livable Community
- Cosmopolis - City of the World
- Enumclaw - The Gateway to Mount Rainier
- Forks - The Logging Capital of the World
- Gig Harbor - The Maritime City
- Ilwaco - By Land or By Sea
- Kelso
- City of Friendly People
- Smelt Capital of the World
- Kirkland
- Gateway to Seattle (adopted in 1926)
- The Little City that Could
- Lynden - The Gem City
- Marysville - The Strawberry City
- Poulsbo - Little Norway
- Pullman - Lentil Capital
- Redmond - Bicycle Capital of the Northwest
- Seattle
- City of Flowers (adopted in the 1940s)
- Coffee Capital of the World
- Emerald City: official since 1982
- Jet City: for the prominence of the aerospace industry, especially Boeing.
- Queen City (of the Pacific Northwest): official from 1869–1982
- Rain City
- Sedro-Woolley, Washington
- Gateway to the North Cascades
- Spokane
- The Lilac City
- Sumner - Rhubarb Pie Capital
- Tacoma
- America’s #1 Wired City
- The City of Destiny - Applied in 1873 when Tacoma was the terminus for the Northern Pacific Railroad.
- Tackyoma
- T-Town
- Grit City
- Walla Walla - The City was so Nice, They Named it Twice
- Wenatchee - Apple Capital of the World.
- Yakima - The Palm Springs of Washington
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