The Seattle metropolitan area is located in the U.S. state of Washington and includes the city of Seattle, King County, Snohomish County, and Pierce County within the Puget Sound region. The United States Census Bureau officially defines the metropolitan area as the Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area, with an estimated population of 3,500,026, which is more than half of Washington's population as of 2012, making it the 15th largest Metropolitan Statistical Area in the United States.
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