Washington is that State located in the upper left corner on the map of the United States, bordered by Oregon on the south, Idaho on the east, the Canadian province of British Columbia on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the west, not too large nor too small, not too populated nor too uninhabited. That if we talk about average, because if we consider that half of the population is concentrated in Seattle metropolitan area (over 3.6 million inhabitants), the things are changing. Admitted to the Union in 1889 as the 42nd state, Washington remained for long time a forest county, the demand for timber being the one which dictated its economic increase or decrease until WWII, when the place of the forest industry was taken by Boeing Company. It's famous the Skid Road (the road for the timber transport with Seattle as a starting point), became within one generation Skid Row, an proverbial area in America in '90s through his poverty and promiscuity.
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