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Spokane

Also known as The Lilac City, Spokane, Washington, Spokane, WA

city in and county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States

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Spokane is a city in Washington State that serves as the county seat of Spokane County, meaning it is the main administrative center for the county government. As a significant urban area in the Pacific Northwest, it functions as an important regional hub for eastern Washington.

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Demonym: Spokanite
Population: 228989
Area: 1.907185
Elevation: 562
Official website: www.spokanecity.org
Image: Spokane skyline panorama (Aug 2019).jpg
Households: 93075
Dialing code: 509

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postal code: 99260
Commons category: Spokane, Washington
inception: 1871-00-00
native label: Spokane
social media followers: 23832
P8168: Andorra
water as percent of area: 1.2875
official map URL: my.spokanecity.org/opendata/gis
per capita income: 30791
P12749: Hans-Josef Becker

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Spokane (/spoʊˈkæn/ spoh-KAN; Spokane: sƛ̓x̌etkʷ) is a city in and the county seat of Spokane County in the U.S. state of Washington. It lies along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, 110 miles (180 km) south of the Canada–United States border, twenty miles (30 km) west of the Idaho border, 279 miles (449 km) southwest of Calgary, Alberta, and 280 miles (450 km) east of Seattle, via Interstate 90.

Spokane is the most populous city in eastern Washington and the second-most populous city in all of Washington (after Seattle), with a population of 228,989 at the 2020 census, while the Spokane metropolitan area has an estimated 605,000 residents.