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Vancouver, Washington is a city in Clark County located on the north bank of the Columbia River directly north of Portland, Oregon, with a 2020 population of 190,915 making it Washington's fourth-most populous city. Founded in 1825 around Fort Vancouver, a Hudson's Bay Company fur trading post established after the 1846 Oregon Treaty gave the United States control of the region, the city was incorporated in 1857 and serves as Clark County's seat. The area was originally inhabited by Chinook and Klickitat nations until European contact in 1792 and subsequent diseases devastated the indigenous population from an estimated 80,000 to only dozens by the mid-1800s. The city shares its name with Vancouver, British Columbia, approximately 300 miles north, both named after British sea captain George Vancouver, though the Washington city predates its Canadian counterpart by 29 years of incorporation and over 60 years of initial naming. Vancouver is part of the Portland metropolitan area and has been locally nicknamed "The 'Couv(e)" to distinguish it from its larger northern namesake. Bremerton is the largest city on Washington's Kitsap Peninsula with a population of 43,505 at the 2020 census, located west of Seattle and connected by Washington State Ferries and Kitsap Transit passenger ferries. Founded in 1891 by German immigrant William Bremer after the Navy identified Point Turner as the best Pacific Northwest shipyard location, the city was incorporated on October 15, 1901, and became home to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton Annex. The shipyard's workforce expanded dramatically during World War I due to submarine construction, and the city grew significantly following the 1918 annexation of Manette and 1927 absorption of Charleston, reaching a population of 10,170 by 1930. Notable infrastructure includes the 1,573-foot Manette Bridge completed in June 1930 (replaced in 2011) and the iconic 250-foot-tall Hammerhead Crane No. 28 constructed at the shipyard in April 1933. Bremerton's economy and development have been shaped primarily by its status as a major U.S. Navy shipbuilding and repair facility spanning the Port Washington Narrows along Sinclair Inlet. Olympia is the capital and only capital city in Washington state's history as both territory and state, located 50 miles southwest of Seattle in Thurston County with a 2020 population of 55,605 and a metropolitan area of approximately 300,000. Indigenous Lushootseed-speaking Squaxin peoples inhabited the southern Puget Sound region for thousands of years before European contact in 1792, with the Treaties of Medicine Creek (1854) and Olympia (1856) forcibly relocating them to reservations and sparking the Puget Sound War. Edmund Sylvester and Levi Lathrop Smith claimed the downtown land in 1846, and the city was incorporated as a town on January 28, 1859, becoming a city in 1882 after being declared territorial capital by Governor Isaac I. Stevens in November 1853. Olympia gained international recognition in the 1990s as a countercultural hub and epicenter of Pacific Northwest punk rock movements including riot grrrl and grunge, and is home to The Evergreen State College with its non-traditional liberal arts curriculum. The city operates Intercity Transit, a fare-free bus system with exceptionally high per-capita ridership for its size.