Whatcom County, Washington
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 154 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5111-6390-1
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Whatcom County ( /?hw?tk?m/) is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. Its name ultimately derives from the Lummi word Xwot?qom, meaning "noisy water." As of 2010, the population was 201,140. The county seat is at Bellingham, which is also the county's largest city. Whatcom County's northern border is the international boundary with the Canadian province of British Columbia; adjoining the county on the north are four of metropolitan Vancouver's suburbs, Delta, White Rock, Surrey, Langley, and, in the central Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, with several shopping malls and other services in Bellingham and elsewhere in the county geared to cross-border shopping and recreation. The five crossing points are two at Blaine (one at the Peace Arch, located on the Interstate 5 crossing, and the other a commercial and passenger crossing on the Pacific Highway at State Route 543, both to Surrey, British Columbia), as well as at Lynden (SR 539, to...