Washington: The Evergreen State

• Alternate Nickname: Chinook State
• Capital: Olympia
• Major Cities:
  • Seattle
  • Spokane
  • Yakima
  • Tacoma
• Major Geographical Features
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Straight of Juan de Fuca
  • Salish Sea
  • Olympic Mountians
  • Olympic Peninsula
  • Cascade Mountains
  • Columbia River
  • Snake River
  • Columbia Mountains
  • Blue Mountains
  • San Juan Islands
• National Parks:
  • Olympic National Park
  • Mount Rainier National Park
  • North Cascades National Park
• 1804-05: Lewis and Clark explore present-day Washington
• 1846: The United States acquires present-day Washington in the Oregon Treaty with Great Britain
• 1889: Washington becomes the 42nd state
• 1980: Mount St. Helens erupts
• Motto: "By and By"
• Name Meaning: Named for President George Washington
• Industries
  • Apples
    • #1 in apple production
  • Cherries
  • Lumber
  • Peas
  • Aircraft
    • Boeing, the world's largest aircraft maker, is located in Washington
• The Olympic Peninsula contains a temperate rainforest
• Seattle Space Needle was built for the 1962 World's Fair
• Washington is home to 71,000 dams
• Famous People
  • Fred Couples
  • Bing Crosby
  • Bill Gates
  • Jimi Hendrix
  • Hope Solo