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class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>2010 census</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2010_census-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Native_American_tribes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Native_American_tribes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>Native American tribes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Native_American_tribes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Religion" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Religion"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.5</span> <span>Religion</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Religion-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Homelessness" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Homelessness"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.6</span> 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class="vector-toc-link" href="#Other_unincorporated_communities"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.4</span> <span>Other unincorporated communities</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Other_unincorporated_communities-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Former_cities_and_towns" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Former_cities_and_towns"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.5</span> <span>Former cities and towns</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Former_cities_and_towns-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Ghost_towns" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Ghost_towns"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.6</span> <span>Ghost towns</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Ghost_towns-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item 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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%82_%D8%A8%D8%A4%D9%84%DA%AF%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%8C_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86%D9%82%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86" title="کینق بؤلگه‌سی، واشینقتون – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="کینق بؤلگه‌سی، واشینقتون" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_K%C5%ABn_(Washington)" title="King Kūn (Washington) – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="King Kūn (Washington)" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3_(%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%8A%D0%B3)" title="Кинг (окръг) – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Кинг (окръг)" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_County,_Washington" title="King County, Washington – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="King County, Washington" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comtat_de_King_(Washington)" title="Comtat de King (Washington) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Comtat de King (Washington)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_County_(kondado_sa_Tinipong_Bansa,_Washington)" title="King County (kondado sa Tinipong Bansa, Washington) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="King County (kondado sa Tinipong Bansa, Washington)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_County_(Washington)" title="King County (Washington) – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="King County (Washington)" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_County,_Washington" title="King County, Washington – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="King County, Washington" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_County_(Washington)" title="King County (Washington) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="King County (Washington)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingi_maakond_(Washington)" title="Kingi maakond (Washington) – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Kingi maakond (Washington)" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CE%9A%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%B3%CE%BA_(%CE%9F%CF%85%CE%AC%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%B3%CE%BA%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD)" title="Κομητεία Κινγκ (Ουάσινγκτον) – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Κομητεία Κινγκ (Ουάσινγκτον)" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condado_de_King_(Washington)" title="Condado de King (Washington) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Condado de King (Washington)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantono_King_(Va%C5%9Dingtonio)" title="Kantono King (Vaŝingtonio) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Kantono King (Vaŝingtonio)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_konderria_(Washington)" title="King konderria (Washington) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="King konderria (Washington)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF_(%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%AA%D9%86)" title="شهرستان کینگ (واشینگتن) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="شهرستان کینگ (واشینگتن)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_King_(Washington)" title="Comté de King (Washington) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Comté de King (Washington)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_County_(Washington)" title="King County (Washington) – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="King County (Washington)" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contae_King,_Washington" title="Contae King, Washington – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Contae King, Washington" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-glk mw-list-item"><a href="https://glk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF_%D9%9A_%D8%B4%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%AA%D9%86)" title="کینگ ٚ شأرستان (واشينگتن) – Gilaki" lang="glk" hreflang="glk" data-title="کینگ ٚ شأرستان (واشينگتن)" data-language-autonym="گیلکی" data-language-local-name="Gilaki" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>گیلکی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%82%B9%EA%B5%B0_(%EC%9B%8C%EC%8B%B1%ED%84%B4%EC%A3%BC)" title="킹군 (워싱턴주) – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="킹군 (워싱턴주)" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bpy mw-list-item"><a href="https://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%82_%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF,_%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%A8" title="কিং কাউন্টি, ৱাশিংটন – Bishnupriya" lang="bpy" hreflang="bpy" data-title="কিং কাউন্টি, ৱাশিংটন" data-language-autonym="বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী" data-language-local-name="Bishnupriya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_King,_Washington" title="County King, Washington – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="County King, Washington" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contea_di_King_(Washington)" title="Contea di King (Washington) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Contea di King (Washington)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%95%D7%96_%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%92" title="מחוז קינג – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מחוז קינג" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Comitatus_(Vasingtonia)" title="King Comitatus (Vasingtonia) – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="King Comitatus (Vasingtonia)" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingo_apygarda_(Va%C5%A1ingtonas)" title="Kingo apygarda (Vašingtonas) – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Kingo apygarda (Vašingtonas)" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_megye_(Washington)" title="King megye (Washington) – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="King megye (Washington)" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF_%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%AA%D9%86)" title="کینگ شهرستان (واشینگتن) – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="کینگ شهرستان (واشینگتن)" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_G%C3%B4ng_(Washington)" title="King Gông (Washington) – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="King Gông (Washington)" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_County_(Washington)" title="King County (Washington) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="King County (Washington)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E9%83%A1_(%E3%83%AF%E3%82%B7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3%E5%B7%9E)" title="キング郡 (ワシントン州) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="キング郡 (ワシントン州)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3_(%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%BE,_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD)" title="Кинг (гуо, Вашингтон) – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Кинг (гуо, Вашингтон)" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_County_(Washington)" title="King County (Washington) – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="King County (Washington)" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_County_i_Washington" title="King County i Washington – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="King County i Washington" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%86%DA%AF_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%A4%D9%86%D9%B9%DB%8C%D8%8C_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%B9%D9%86" title="کنگ کاؤنٹی، واشنگٹن – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="کنگ کاؤنٹی، واشنگٹن" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_County_(Washington)" title="King County (Washington) – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="King County (Washington)" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrabstwo_King_(Waszyngton)" title="Hrabstwo King (Waszyngton) – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Hrabstwo King (Waszyngton)" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condado_de_King_(Washington)" title="Condado de King (Washington) – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Condado de King (Washington)" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comitatul_King,_Washington" title="Comitatul King, Washington – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Comitatul King, Washington" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3_(%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3,_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD)" title="Кинг (округ, Вашингтон) – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Кинг (округ, Вашингтон)" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_County_(Washington)" title="King County (Washington) – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="King County (Washington)" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_County,_Washington" title="King County, Washington – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="King County, Washington" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3_%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3_(%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD)" title="Округ Кинг (Вашингтон) – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Округ Кинг (Вашингтон)" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_County,_Washington" title="King County, Washington – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="King County, Washington" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingin_piirikunta_(Washington)" title="Kingin piirikunta (Washington) – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Kingin piirikunta (Washington)" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A8%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%93%E0%B8%91%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%87_(%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%90%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%99)" title="เทศมณฑลคิง (รัฐวอชิงตัน) – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="เทศมณฑลคิง (รัฐวอชิงตัน)" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_County,_Washington" title="King County, Washington – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="King County, Washington" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B3_(%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3,_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD)" title="Кінг (округ, Вашингтон) – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Кінг (округ, Вашингтон)" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%86%DA%AF_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%A4%D9%86%D9%B9%DB%8C%D8%8C_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%B9%D9%86" title="کنگ کاؤنٹی، واشنگٹن – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="کنگ کاؤنٹی، واشنگٹن" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qu%E1%BA%ADn_King,_Washington" title="Quận King, Washington – Vietnamese" lang="vi" 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.ib-settlement .maptable{border:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-header,.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-below{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-above{font-size:125%;line-height:1.3em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement .infobox-subheader{background-color:#cddeff;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-native{font-weight:normal;padding-top:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-other-name{font-size:78%}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-official{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption{padding:0.3em 0 0 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-caption-link{padding:0.2em 0}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-nickname{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .ib-settlement-fn{font-weight:normal;display:inline}</style><table class="infobox ib-settlement vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above"><div class="fn org">King County</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><div class="category"><a href="/wiki/County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)">County</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Seattle_-_King_County_Courthouse_and_King_County_Administration_Building_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="City Hall Park and King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle"><img alt="City Hall Park and King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Seattle_-_King_County_Courthouse_and_King_County_Administration_Building_01.jpg/300px-Seattle_-_King_County_Courthouse_and_King_County_Administration_Building_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="199" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Seattle_-_King_County_Courthouse_and_King_County_Administration_Building_01.jpg/450px-Seattle_-_King_County_Courthouse_and_King_County_Administration_Building_01.jpg 1.5x, 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class="ib-settlement-cols-cell"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_King_County,_Washington.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Flag of King County"><img alt="Flag of King County" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d8/Flag_of_King_County%2C_Washington.svg/115px-Flag_of_King_County%2C_Washington.svg.png" decoding="async" width="115" height="63" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d8/Flag_of_King_County%2C_Washington.svg/173px-Flag_of_King_County%2C_Washington.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d8/Flag_of_King_County%2C_Washington.svg/230px-Flag_of_King_County%2C_Washington.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="427" data-file-height="234" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link">Flag</div></div><div class="ib-settlement-cols-cell"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Logo_of_King_County,_Washington.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Official logo of King County"><img alt="Official logo of King County" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Logo_of_King_County%2C_Washington.svg/95px-Logo_of_King_County%2C_Washington.svg.png" decoding="async" width="95" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Logo_of_King_County%2C_Washington.svg/143px-Logo_of_King_County%2C_Washington.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4c/Logo_of_King_County%2C_Washington.svg/190px-Logo_of_King_County%2C_Washington.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="226" data-file-height="160" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption-link">Logo</div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_Washington_highlighting_King_County.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Location within the U.S. state of Washington"><img alt="Map of Washington highlighting King County" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Map_of_Washington_highlighting_King_County.svg/300px-Map_of_Washington_highlighting_King_County.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Map_of_Washington_highlighting_King_County.svg/450px-Map_of_Washington_highlighting_King_County.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Map_of_Washington_highlighting_King_County.svg/600px-Map_of_Washington_highlighting_King_County.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1696" data-file-height="1104" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Location within the U.S. state of <a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Washington_in_United_States.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Washington's location within the U.S."><img alt="Map of the United States highlighting Washington" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Washington_in_United_States.svg/300px-Washington_in_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="186" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Washington_in_United_States.svg/450px-Washington_in_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Washington_in_United_States.svg/600px-Washington_in_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1181" data-file-height="731" /></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">Washington's location within the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Coordinates: <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=King_County,_Washington&params=47_28_N_121_50_W_type:adm2nd_region:US-WA_source:UScensus1990"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">47°28′N</span> <span class="longitude">121°50′W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">47.467°N 121.833°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">47.467; -121.833</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" 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class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_R._King" title="William R. King">William R. King</a> (1852–2005)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a> (since 2005)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">Seat</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Seattle,_Washington" class="mw-redirect" title="Seattle, Washington">Seattle</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Largest city</th><td class="infobox-data">Seattle</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">2,307 sq mi (5,980 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Land</th><td class="infobox-data">2,116 sq mi (5,480 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Water</th><td class="infobox-data">191 sq mi (490 km<sup>2</sup>)  8.3%</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(<a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020</a>)</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">2,269,675</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Estimate <div class="ib-settlement-fn">(2023)</div></div></th><td class="infobox-data">2,271,380 <span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Increase"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">980/sq mi (380/km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%928" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC−8">UTC−8</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pacific_Time_Zone" title="Pacific Time Zone">Pacific</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%927" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC−7">UTC−7</a> (<a href="/wiki/Pacific_Time_Zone" title="Pacific Time Zone">PDT</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Congressional districts</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Washington%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="Washington's 1st congressional district">1st</a>, <a href="/wiki/Washington%27s_7th_congressional_district" title="Washington's 7th congressional district">7th</a>, <a href="/wiki/Washington%27s_8th_congressional_district" title="Washington's 8th congressional district">8th</a>, <a href="/wiki/Washington%27s_9th_congressional_district" title="Washington's 9th congressional district">9th</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kingcounty.gov">kingcounty<wbr />.gov</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data maptable"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Autonomous_System_Number" class="mw-redirect" title="Autonomous System Number">ASN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://bgp.tools/as/2544">2544</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>King County</b> is a <a href="/wiki/County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)">county</a> located in the <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">U.S. state</a> of <a href="/wiki/Washington_(state)" title="Washington (state)">Washington</a>. The population was 2,269,675 in the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020 census</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-QF_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QF-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> making it the <a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Washington" title="List of counties in Washington">most populous county in Washington</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/List_of_the_most_populous_counties_in_the_United_States" title="List of the most populous counties in the United States">12th-most populous</a> in the United States. The county seat is <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> also the state's <a href="/wiki/List_of_municipalities_in_Washington" title="List of municipalities in Washington">most populous city</a>. </p><p>Originally named after US representative, senator, and then vice president-elect <a href="/wiki/William_R._King" title="William R. King">William R. King</a> in 1852, the county government amended its designation in 1986 to honor <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a>, a prominent activist and leader during the <a href="/wiki/Civil_rights_movement" title="Civil rights movement">civil rights movement</a>. The change was approved by the state government in 2005. </p><p>It is one of three Washington counties that are included in the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_metropolitan_area" title="Seattle metropolitan area">Seattle metropolitan area</a> along with <a href="/wiki/Snohomish_County,_Washington" title="Snohomish County, Washington">Snohomish County</a> to the north and <a href="/wiki/Pierce_County,_Washington" title="Pierce County, Washington">Pierce County</a> to the south. About two-thirds of King County's population lives in Seattle's <a href="/wiki/Suburb" title="Suburb">suburbs</a>, which largely developed in the late 20th century and early 21st century as <a href="/wiki/Bedroom_communities" class="mw-redirect" title="Bedroom communities">bedroom communities</a> before becoming job centers for the <a href="/wiki/Technology_company" title="Technology company">technology industry</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When Europeans arrived in the region that would become King County, it was inhabited by several <a href="/wiki/Coast_Salish" title="Coast Salish">Coast Salish</a> groups. Villages around the site that would become Seattle were primarily populated by the <a href="/wiki/Duwamish_people" title="Duwamish people">Duwamish people</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Snoqualmie_Indian_Tribe" title="Snoqualmie Indian Tribe">Snoqualmie Indian Tribe</a> occupied the area that would become eastern King County. The <a href="/wiki/Green_River_(Washington)" title="Green River (Washington)">Green River</a> and <a href="/wiki/White_River_(Washington)" class="mw-redirect" title="White River (Washington)">White River</a> were home for the <a href="/wiki/Muckleshoot" title="Muckleshoot">Muckleshoot</a> tribal groups.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the first winter after the <a href="/wiki/Denny_Party" title="Denny Party">Denny Party</a> landed at <a href="/wiki/Alki_Point,_Seattle" title="Alki Point, Seattle">Alki Point</a>, the settlement at the point consisted of a few dozen settlers and over a thousand Native Americans. The local tribes provided the settlers with construction labor, domestic service, and help with subsistence activities.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On December 22, 1852, the <a href="/wiki/Oregon_Territory" title="Oregon Territory">Oregon Territory</a> legislature formed King County out of territory from within <a href="/wiki/Thurston_County,_Washington" title="Thurston County, Washington">Thurston County</a>. The county was named after <a href="/wiki/Alabama" title="Alabama">Alabamian</a> <a href="/wiki/William_R._King" title="William R. King">William R. King</a>, who had just been elected <a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States">Vice President of the United States</a> under <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Pierce" title="Franklin Pierce">Franklin Pierce</a>. Seattle was made the county seat on January 11, 1853.<sup id="cite_ref-autogenerated1_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-autogenerated1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-reinartz_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reinartz-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The area became part of the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Territory" title="Washington Territory">Washington Territory</a> when it was created later that year. </p><p>King County originally extended to the <a href="/wiki/Olympic_Peninsula" title="Olympic Peninsula">Olympic Peninsula</a>. According to historian <a href="/wiki/Bill_Speidel" title="Bill Speidel">Bill Speidel</a>, when peninsular prohibitionists threatened to shut down Seattle's saloons, <a href="/wiki/Doc_Maynard" title="Doc Maynard">Doc Maynard</a> engineered a peninsular independence movement; King County lost what is now <a href="/wiki/Kitsap_County" class="mw-redirect" title="Kitsap County">Kitsap County</a> but preserved its entertainment industry.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Coal" title="Coal">Coal</a> was discovered in 1853 by M. Bigelow along the <a href="/wiki/Black_River_(Duwamish_River)" class="mw-redirect" title="Black River (Duwamish River)">Black River</a>, and in subsequent decades several companies formed to mine coal around Lake Washington and deliver it to Seattle. The <a href="/wiki/Seattle_and_Walla_Walla_Railroad" title="Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad">Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad</a> started servicing the Renton coal fields in 1877, and the <a href="/wiki/Newcastle,_Washington" title="Newcastle, Washington">Newcastle</a> fields in 1878. By 1880, King County produced 22% of the coal mined on the West Coast, most of that coal being found within the <a href="/wiki/Renton_Formation" title="Renton Formation">Renton Formation</a>'s Muldoon coal seam.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ws_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ws-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Name">Name</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Name"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_King_County,_Washington_(1984%E2%80%932007).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Flag_of_King_County%2C_Washington_%281984%E2%80%932007%29.svg/220px-Flag_of_King_County%2C_Washington_%281984%E2%80%932007%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="122" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Flag_of_King_County%2C_Washington_%281984%E2%80%932007%29.svg/330px-Flag_of_King_County%2C_Washington_%281984%E2%80%932007%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Flag_of_King_County%2C_Washington_%281984%E2%80%932007%29.svg/440px-Flag_of_King_County%2C_Washington_%281984%E2%80%932007%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="284" /></a><figcaption>King County's former flag, used from 1984 to 2007</figcaption></figure> <p>On February 24, 1986, the <a href="/wiki/King_County_Council" title="King County Council">King County Council</a> approved a motion to rename the county to honor civil rights leader <a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a> (no relation to William R. King), preserving the name "King County" while changing its namesake.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sims2_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sims2-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The motion stated, among other reasons for the change, that "<a href="/wiki/William_R._King" title="William R. King">William Rufus DeVane King</a> was a <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States" title="Slavery in the United States">slaveowner</a>" who "earned income and maintained his lifestyle by oppressing and exploiting other human beings," while Martin Luther King's "contributions are well-documented and celebrated by millions throughout this nation and the world, and embody the attributes for which the citizens of King County can be proud, and claim as their own."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Because only the state can charter counties, the change was not made official until April 19, 2005, when Governor <a href="/wiki/Christine_Gregoire" title="Christine Gregoire">Christine Gregoire</a> signed into law Senate Bill 5332, which provided that "King county is renamed in honor of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr." effective July 24, 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The County Council voted on February 27, 2006, to adopt the proposal sponsored by Councilmember Larry Gossett to change the county's logo from an imperial crown to an image of Martin Luther King Jr.<sup id="cite_ref-ervin_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ervin-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On March 12, 2007, the new logo was unveiled.<sup id="cite_ref-sims_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sims-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The new logo design was developed by the Gable Design Group and the specific image was selected by a committee consisting of King County Executive <a href="/wiki/Ron_Sims" title="Ron Sims">Ron Sims</a>, Council Chair Larry Gossett, Prosecutor <a href="/wiki/Norm_Maleng" title="Norm Maleng">Norm Maleng</a>, Sheriff Sue Rahr, District Court Judge Corrina Harn, and Superior Court Judge Michael Trickey.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same logo is used in the flag. </p><p>Martin Luther King Jr. had visited King County once, for three days in November 1961.<sup id="cite_ref-historylink_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-historylink-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kingcounty-wa.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Kingcounty-wa.png/220px-Kingcounty-wa.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Kingcounty-wa.png/330px-Kingcounty-wa.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Kingcounty-wa.png 2x" data-file-width="422" data-file-height="359" /></a><figcaption>Map of King County</figcaption></figure> <p>According to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">United States Census Bureau</a>, the county has a total area of 2,307 square miles (5,980 km<sup>2</sup>), of which 2,116 square miles (5,480 km<sup>2</sup>) is land and 191 square miles (490 km<sup>2</sup>) (8.3%) is water.<sup id="cite_ref-GR1_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR1-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> King County has nearly twice the land area of the state of <a href="/wiki/Rhode_Island" title="Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a>. The highest point in the county is <a href="/wiki/Mount_Daniel" title="Mount Daniel">Mount Daniel</a> at 7,959 feet (2,426 meters) above sea level. </p><p>King County borders <a href="/wiki/Snohomish_County,_Washington" title="Snohomish County, Washington">Snohomish County</a> to the north, <a href="/wiki/Kitsap_County,_Washington" title="Kitsap County, Washington">Kitsap County</a> to the west, <a href="/wiki/Kittitas_County,_Washington" title="Kittitas County, Washington">Kittitas County</a> to the east, and <a href="/wiki/Pierce_County,_Washington" title="Pierce County, Washington">Pierce County</a> to the south. It also shares a small border with <a href="/wiki/Chelan_County,_Washington" title="Chelan County, Washington">Chelan County</a> to the northeast. King County includes <a href="/wiki/Vashon_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Vashon Island">Vashon Island</a> and <a href="/wiki/Maury_Island" title="Maury Island">Maury Island</a> in <a href="/wiki/Puget_Sound" title="Puget Sound">Puget Sound</a>. </p><p>The county has 760 lakes and 3,000 miles (4,800 km) of streams and rivers.<sup id="cite_ref-APA-ClimateChange_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-APA-ClimateChange-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Geographic_features">Geographic features</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Geographic features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Granite_Mountain_King_County_Washington_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Granite_Mountain_King_County_Washington_2.jpg/220px-Granite_Mountain_King_County_Washington_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Granite_Mountain_King_County_Washington_2.jpg/330px-Granite_Mountain_King_County_Washington_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Granite_Mountain_King_County_Washington_2.jpg/440px-Granite_Mountain_King_County_Washington_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112" /></a><figcaption>The Cascade Range (including <a href="/wiki/Granite_Mountain_(King_County,_Washington)" title="Granite Mountain (King County, Washington)">Granite Mountain</a> shown here) dominates the eastern part of King County.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Terrain">Terrain</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Terrain"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cascade_Range" title="Cascade Range">Cascade Range</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Issaquah_Alps" title="Issaquah Alps">Issaquah Alps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Baker-Snoqualmie_National_Forest" class="mw-redirect" title="Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest">Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Daniel" title="Mount Daniel">Mount Daniel</a>, the highest point</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Si" title="Mount Si">Mount Si</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harbor_Island_(Seattle)" class="mw-redirect" title="Harbor Island (Seattle)">Harbor Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maury_Island" title="Maury Island">Maury Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercer_Island,_Washington" title="Mercer Island, Washington">Mercer Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sammamish_Plateau" class="mw-redirect" title="Sammamish Plateau">Sammamish Plateau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vashon_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Vashon Island">Vashon Island</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Water">Water</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Water"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cedar_River_(Washington)" title="Cedar River (Washington)">Cedar River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duwamish_River" title="Duwamish River">Green/Duwamish River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elliott_Bay" title="Elliott Bay">Elliott Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greenwater_River" title="Greenwater River">Greenwater River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Issaquah_Creek" title="Issaquah Creek">Issaquah Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Sammamish" title="Lake Sammamish">Lake Sammamish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Union" title="Lake Union">Lake Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Washington" title="Lake Washington">Lake Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Youngs" title="Lake Youngs">Lake Youngs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pratt_River" title="Pratt River">Pratt River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puget_Sound" title="Puget Sound">Puget Sound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raging_River" title="Raging River">Raging River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skykomish_River" title="Skykomish River">Skykomish River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snoqualmie_Falls" title="Snoqualmie Falls">Snoqualmie Falls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snoqualmie_River" title="Snoqualmie River">Snoqualmie River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taylor_River_(Washington)" title="Taylor River (Washington)">Taylor River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolt_River" title="Tolt River">Tolt River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_River_(Washington)" class="mw-redirect" title="White River (Washington)">White River</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="National_protected_areas">National protected areas</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: National protected areas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Klondike_Gold_Rush_National_Historical_Park" title="Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park">Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park</a> (part, also in <a href="/wiki/Skagway,_Alaska" title="Skagway, Alaska">Skagway, Alaska</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snoqualmie_National_Forest" class="mw-redirect" title="Snoqualmie National Forest">Snoqualmie National Forest</a> (part)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Climate_change">Climate change</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Climate change"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>King County has been identified as vulnerable to higher risks of flooding caused by <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a> due to the number of waterways in the area. The county's oceanic ecosystems are predicted to face harmful chemical changes, while the mountainous ecosystems could experience a decrease in ice and snow.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since the mid-2000s, the county government has adopted policies to mitigate the effects of climate change and reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the region.<sup id="cite_ref-APA-ClimateChange_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-APA-ClimateChange-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transportation">Transportation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Transportation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Major_highways">Major highways</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Major highways"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:I-5.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/I-5.svg/20px-I-5.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/I-5.svg/30px-I-5.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/I-5.svg/40px-I-5.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="601" data-file-height="601" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_5_in_Washington" title="Interstate 5 in Washington">Interstate 5</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:I-90.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/I-90.svg/20px-I-90.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/I-90.svg/30px-I-90.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/I-90.svg/40px-I-90.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="601" data-file-height="601" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_90_in_Washington" title="Interstate 90 in Washington">Interstate 90</a></li> <li><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:I-405.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/I-405.svg/25px-I-405.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/I-405.svg/38px-I-405.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/I-405.svg/50px-I-405.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="751" data-file-height="601" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_405_(Washington)" title="Interstate 405 (Washington)">Interstate 405</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US_2.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/US_2.svg/20px-US_2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/US_2.svg/30px-US_2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/US_2.svg/40px-US_2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_2_in_Washington" title="U.S. Route 2 in Washington">U.S. Route 2</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:WA-18.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/WA-18.svg/20px-WA-18.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/WA-18.svg/30px-WA-18.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/WA-18.svg/40px-WA-18.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Washington_State_Route_18" title="Washington State Route 18">State Route 18</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:WA-99.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/WA-99.svg/20px-WA-99.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/WA-99.svg/30px-WA-99.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/WA-99.svg/40px-WA-99.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Washington_State_Route_99" title="Washington State Route 99">State Route 99</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:WA-167.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/WA-167.svg/20px-WA-167.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/WA-167.svg/30px-WA-167.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/WA-167.svg/40px-WA-167.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Washington_State_Route_167" title="Washington State Route 167">State Route 167</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:WA-520.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/WA-520.svg/20px-WA-520.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/WA-520.svg/30px-WA-520.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/WA-520.svg/40px-WA-520.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Washington_State_Route_520" title="Washington State Route 520">State Route 520</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:WA-522.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/WA-522.svg/20px-WA-522.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/WA-522.svg/30px-WA-522.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/WA-522.svg/40px-WA-522.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Washington_State_Route_522" title="Washington State Route 522">State Route 522</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Public_transit">Public transit</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Public transit"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/King_County_Metro" title="King County Metro">King County Metro</a> serves the county with local routes, <a href="/wiki/Paratransit" title="Paratransit">paratransit</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vanpool" title="Vanpool">vanpools</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ridesharing_company" title="Ridesharing company">rideshare</a> in select areas. It also operates an <a href="/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_Seattle" title="Trolleybuses in Seattle">electric trolleybus network</a> in Seattle as well as the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Streetcar" title="Seattle Streetcar">city streetcar system</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Metro was the seventh-largest transit bus agency in the United States by ridership in 2019, with 121.3 million annual passenger trips and 400,000 per weekday.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Sound_Transit" title="Sound Transit">Sound Transit</a> manages <a href="/wiki/Link_light_rail" title="Link light rail">Link light rail</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sounder_commuter_rail" title="Sounder commuter rail">Sounder commuter rail</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sound_Transit_Express" title="Sound Transit Express">Sound Transit Express</a> buses in King County that provide connections to adjacent counties.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Community_Transit" title="Community Transit">Community Transit</a> of Snohomish County and the <a href="/wiki/Pierce_Transit" title="Pierce Transit">Pierce Transit</a> of Pierce County also operate routes that serve portions of King County.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most transit modes in the county use the <a href="/wiki/ORCA_card" title="ORCA card">ORCA card</a>, a smart fare card system introduced in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The county is home to three major <a href="/wiki/Ferry_terminal" class="mw-redirect" title="Ferry terminal">ferry terminals</a> that are served by <a href="/wiki/Washington_State_Ferries" title="Washington State Ferries">Washington State Ferries</a>, a state-run passenger and automobile ferry system. <a href="/wiki/Colman_Dock" title="Colman Dock">Colman Dock</a> in Downtown Seattle is served by routes from <a href="/wiki/Bainbridge_Island,_Washington" title="Bainbridge Island, Washington">Bainbridge Island</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bremerton,_Washington" title="Bremerton, Washington">Bremerton</a>; Vashon Island is connected to West Seattle at <a href="/wiki/Fauntleroy,_Seattle" title="Fauntleroy, Seattle">Fauntleroy</a> and also has service to <a href="/wiki/Southworth,_Washington" title="Southworth, Washington">Southworth</a> in Kitsap County.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Times-Southworth_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times-Southworth-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The county government's Marine Division operates the <a href="/wiki/King_County_Water_Taxi" title="King County Water Taxi">King County Water Taxi</a>, a passenger ferry service that connects Downtown Seattle to <a href="/wiki/West_Seattle" title="West Seattle">West Seattle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vashon_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Vashon Island">Vashon Island</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The passenger-only <a href="/wiki/Kitsap_Fast_Ferries" title="Kitsap Fast Ferries">Kitsap Fast Ferries</a> system operated by <a href="/wiki/Kitsap_Transit" title="Kitsap Transit">Kitsap Transit</a> connects a terminal near Colman Dock to communities on the <a href="/wiki/Kitsap_Peninsula" title="Kitsap Peninsula">Kitsap Peninsula</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Times-Southworth_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times-Southworth-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224496135">.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop{border-spacing:1px;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:0.3em;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop caption{background-color:lavender;color:black;padding-right:0.2em;padding-left:0.2em;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-bottom:none}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop th[scope=col]{border-bottom:1px solid black}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(2){text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td.us-census-pop-estimate{padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(3){padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(4){padding-left:0.5em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-footnote{border-top:1px solid black;font-size:85%;text-align:center}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-right{float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 1em 1em}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-left{float:left;clear:left;margin:0 1em 1em 0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-center{float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-none{float:none;margin:0 1em 1em 0}}</style> <table class="us-census-pop us-census-pop-right"> <caption>Historical population</caption> <tbody><tr><th scope="col">Census</th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Population">Pop.</abbr></th><th scope="col"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1152813436">.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="sr-only">Note</span></th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Percent change">%±</abbr></th></tr> <tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1860_United_States_census" title="1860 United States census">1860</a></th><td>302</td><td></td><td>—</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1870_United_States_census" title="1870 United States census">1870</a></th><td>2,120</td><td></td><td>602.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1880_United_States_census" title="1880 United States census">1880</a></th><td>6,910</td><td></td><td>225.9%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1890_United_States_census" title="1890 United States census">1890</a></th><td>63,989</td><td></td><td>826.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1900_United_States_census" title="1900 United States census">1900</a></th><td>110,053</td><td></td><td>72.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1910_United_States_census" title="1910 United States census">1910</a></th><td>284,638</td><td></td><td>158.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1920_United_States_census" title="1920 United States census">1920</a></th><td>389,273</td><td></td><td>36.8%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1930_United_States_census" title="1930 United States census">1930</a></th><td>463,517</td><td></td><td>19.1%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1940_United_States_census" title="1940 United States census">1940</a></th><td>504,980</td><td></td><td>8.9%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1950_United_States_census" title="1950 United States census">1950</a></th><td>732,992</td><td></td><td>45.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_census" title="1960 United States census">1960</a></th><td>935,014</td><td></td><td>27.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1970_United_States_census" title="1970 United States census">1970</a></th><td>1,156,633</td><td></td><td>23.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1980_United_States_census" title="1980 United States census">1980</a></th><td>1,269,749</td><td></td><td>9.8%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1990_United_States_census" title="1990 United States census">1990</a></th><td>1,507,319</td><td></td><td>18.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_census" title="2000 United States census">2000</a></th><td>1,737,034</td><td></td><td>15.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_census" title="2010 United States census">2010</a></th><td>1,931,249</td><td></td><td>11.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020</a></th><td>2,269,675</td><td></td><td>17.5%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">2023 (est.)</th><td class="us-census-pop-estimate">2,271,380</td><td><sup id="cite_ref-USCensusEst2023_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USCensusEst2023-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td><td>0.1%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" class="us-census-pop-footnote" style="text-align: center">U.S. Decennial Census<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />1790–1960<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1900–1990<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />1990–2000<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 2010–2020<sup id="cite_ref-QF_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QF-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Center_of_population" title="Center of population">center of population</a> of the state of Washington in 2010 was located in eastern King County (<span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=King_County,_Washington&params=47.33075_N_121.619994_W_scale:2500000_region:US-WA&title=Washington+center+of+population%2C+2010"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">47°19′51″N</span> <span class="longitude">121°37′12″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">47.330750°N 121.619994°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">47.330750; -121.619994</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Washington center of population, 2010</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span>).<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> King County's own center of population was located on <a href="/wiki/Mercer_Island" class="mw-redirect" title="Mercer Island">Mercer Island</a> (<span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=King_County,_Washington&params=47.54832_N_122.229983_W_scale:500000_region:US-WA&title=King+County+center+of+population%2C+2010"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">47°32′54″N</span> <span class="longitude">122°13′48″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">47.548320°N 122.229983°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">47.548320; -122.229983</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">King County center of population, 2010</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span>).<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of the fourth quarter of 2021, the median home value in King County was $817,547, an increase of 19.6% from the prior year.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2021 King County experienced its first population decline in 50 years.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Racial_and_ethnic_composition_since_1960">Racial and ethnic composition since 1960</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Racial and ethnic composition since 1960"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable collapsible" style="font-size: 90%;"> <tbody><tr> <th>Racial composition </th> <th>2020<sup id="cite_ref-data.census.gov_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-data.census.gov-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th> <th>2010<sup id="cite_ref-data.census.gov_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-data.census.gov-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></th> <th>2000</th> <th>1990</th> <th>1980</th> <th>1970</th> <th>1960 </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/White_Americans" title="White Americans">White</a> (non-Hispanic) </td> <td>54.2%</td> <td>64.8%</td> <td>73.4%</td> <td>83.2%</td> <td>87.2%</td> <td>–</td> <td>– </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Asian_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian American">Asian</a> (non-Hispanic) </td> <td>19.8%</td> <td>14.5%</td> <td>10.8%</td> <td>7.8%</td> <td>–</td> <td>–</td> <td>2.0% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Hispanic and Latino Americans">Hispanic or Latino</a> </td> <td>10.7%</td> <td>8.9%</td> <td>5.4%</td> <td>2.9%</td> <td>2.1%</td> <td>1.8%</td> <td>– </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">Black or African American</a> (non-Hispanic) </td> <td>6.5%</td> <td>6.0%</td> <td>5.4%</td> <td>5.0%</td> <td>4.4%</td> <td>3.5%</td> <td>2.9% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander" title="Pacific Islander">Pacific Islander</a> (non-Hispanic) </td> <td>0.9%</td> <td>0.7%</td> <td>0.5%</td> <td>–</td> <td>–</td> <td>–</td> <td>– </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a> (non-Hispanic) </td> <td>0.5%</td> <td>0.7%</td> <td>0.9%</td> <td>1.1%</td> <td>–</td> <td>–</td> <td>0.3% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Multiracial_Americans" title="Multiracial Americans">Mixed</a> (non-Hispanic) </td> <td>6.8%</td> <td>4.1%</td> <td>4.0%</td> <td>–</td> <td>–</td> <td>–</td> <td>– </td></tr></tbody></table> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ethnic_Origins_in_King_County,_WA.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Ethnic_Origins_in_King_County%2C_WA.png/330px-Ethnic_Origins_in_King_County%2C_WA.png" decoding="async" width="330" height="206" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Ethnic_Origins_in_King_County%2C_WA.png/495px-Ethnic_Origins_in_King_County%2C_WA.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Ethnic_Origins_in_King_County%2C_WA.png/660px-Ethnic_Origins_in_King_County%2C_WA.png 2x" data-file-width="7000" data-file-height="4369" /></a><figcaption>Ethnic origins in King County</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2020_census">2020 census</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: 2020 census"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020 census</a>, there were 2,269,675 people, 917,764 households, and 537,466 families residing in the county.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Population_density" title="Population density">population density</a> was 1,073.0 inhabitants per square mile (414.3/km<sup>2</sup>) There were 969,234 housing units. The racial makeup of the county was 56.1% <a href="/wiki/White_American" class="mw-redirect" title="White American">White</a> (54.2% <a href="/wiki/Non-Hispanic_White" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-Hispanic White">Non-Hispanic White</a>), 6.7% <a href="/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">African American</a> (6.5% Non-Hispanic Black), 19.9% <a href="/wiki/Asian_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian American">Asian</a> (19.8% Non-Hispanic Asian), 0.9% <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islands_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Islands Americans">Pacific Islander</a> (0.8% Non-Hispanic Pacific Islander), 0.5% <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a>, 5.2% from other races, and 10.4% from <a href="/wiki/Multiracial_Americans" title="Multiracial Americans">two or more races</a>. Those of <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Hispanic and Latino Americans">Hispanic or Latino</a> origin made up 10.7% of the population.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010_census">2010 census</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: 2010 census"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_census" title="2010 United States census">2010 census</a>, there were 1,931,249 people, 789,232 households, and 461,510 families residing in the county.<sup id="cite_ref-census-dp1_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census-dp1-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The population density was 912.9 inhabitants per square mile (352.5/km<sup>2</sup>). There were 851,261 housing units at an average density of 402.4 per square mile (155.4/km<sup>2</sup>).<sup id="cite_ref-census-density_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census-density-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The racial makeup of the county was 68.7% <a href="/wiki/White_American" class="mw-redirect" title="White American">White</a> (64.8% <a href="/wiki/Non-Hispanic_White" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-Hispanic White">Non-Hispanic White</a>), 6.2% <a href="/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">African American</a>, 14.6% <a href="/wiki/Asian_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian American">Asian</a>, 0.8% <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islands_Americans" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Islands Americans">Pacific Islander</a>, 0.8% <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a>, 3.9% from other races, and 5.0% from <a href="/wiki/Multiracial_Americans" title="Multiracial Americans">two or more races</a>. Those of <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Hispanic and Latino Americans">Hispanic or Latino</a> origin made up 8.9% of the population.<sup id="cite_ref-census-dp1_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census-dp1-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In terms of ancestry, 17.1% were <a href="/wiki/Germans" title="Germans">German</a>, 11.6% were <a href="/wiki/English_people" title="English people">English</a>, 11.1% were <a href="/wiki/Irish_people" title="Irish people">Irish</a>, 5.5% were <a href="/wiki/Norwegians" title="Norwegians">Norwegian</a>, and 2.9% were <a href="/wiki/Americans" title="Americans">American</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-census-dp2_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census-dp2-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Of the 789,232 households, 29.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.3% were married couples living together, 9.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 41.5% were non-families, and 31.0% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.40 and the average family size was 3.05. The median age was 37.1 years.<sup id="cite_ref-census-dp1_50-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census-dp1-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The median income for a household in the county was $68,065 and the median income for a family was $87,010. Males had a median income of $62,373 versus $45,761 for females. The per capita income for the county was $38,211. About 6.4% of families and 10.2% of the population were below the <a href="/wiki/Poverty_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Poverty line">poverty line</a>, including 12.5% of those under age 18 and 8.6% of those age 65 or over.<sup id="cite_ref-census-dp3_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-census-dp3-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Native_American_tribes">Native American tribes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Native American tribes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>King County is home two federally-recognized tribes, the <a href="/wiki/Muckleshoot" title="Muckleshoot">Muckleshoot</a> tribe and the <a href="/wiki/Snoqualmie_Indian_Tribe" title="Snoqualmie Indian Tribe">Snoqualmie Indian Tribe</a> tribe, and other unrecognized groups.<sup id="cite_ref-goia_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-goia-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Muckleshoot Indian Reservation is located southeast of Auburn and is home to a resident population of 3,606 as of the 2000 census. </p><p>The Snoqualmie tribe's casino property was federally recognized as their reservation in 2006, however few tribe members live near the reservation.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2010 statistics, the largest religious group in King County was the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Seattle" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle">Archdiocese of Seattle</a>, with 278,340 Catholics worshipping at 71 parishes, followed by 95,218 <a href="/wiki/Nondenominational_Christianity" class="mw-redirect" title="Nondenominational Christianity">non-denominational</a> adherents with 159 congregations, 56,985 <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">LDS</a> Mormons with 110 congregations, 25,937 <a href="/wiki/Assemblies_of_God" title="Assemblies of God">AoG</a> Pentecostals with 63 congregations, 25,789 <a href="/wiki/Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_in_America" title="Evangelical Lutheran Church in America">ELCA</a> Lutherans with 68 congregations, 24,909 <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian_Church_in_the_United_States_of_America" title="Presbyterian Church in the United States of America">PC-USA</a> Presbyterians with 54 congregations, 18,185 <a href="/wiki/Mahayana" title="Mahayana">Mahayana</a> Buddhists with 39 congregations, 18,161 <a href="/wiki/United_Methodist_Church" title="United Methodist Church">UMC</a> Methodists with 50 congregations, 14,971 <a href="/wiki/Episcopal_Church_(United_States)" title="Episcopal Church (United States)">TEC</a> Episcopalians with 35 congregations, and 12,531 <a href="/wiki/American_Baptist_Churches_USA" title="American Baptist Churches USA">ABCUSA</a> Baptists with 42 congregations. Altogether, 37.6% of the population was claimed as members by religious congregations, although members of historically African-American denominations were underrepresented due to incomplete information.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2014, King County had 944 religious organizations, the 8th most out of all US counties.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Homelessness">Homelessness</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Homelessness"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Homelessness_in_Seattle" title="Homelessness in Seattle">Homelessness in Seattle</a></div> <p>King County has the third largest population of <a href="/wiki/Homeless" class="mw-redirect" title="Homeless">homeless</a> or unsheltered people in the United States according to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Housing_and_Urban_Development" title="United States Department of Housing and Urban Development">U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development</a> (HUD).<sup id="cite_ref-Times-Clearing_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times-Clearing-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The agency's January 2023 report, based on the <a href="/wiki/Point-in-time_count" class="mw-redirect" title="Point-in-time count">point-in-time count</a> system, estimates 14,149 people in the county have experienced homelessness;<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County_Regional_Homelessness_Authority&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="King County Regional Homelessness Authority (page does not exist)">King County Regional Homelessness Authority</a> (KCRHA) adopted a different methodology based on the number of people seeking services and estimated that 53,532 people in the county had been homeless at some point in 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-Times-Clearing_58-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times-Clearing-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to a survey collected by service providers for the county government, 68.5 percent of respondents said they last had stable housing in King County and 10.8 percent had lived elsewhere in the state.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Approximately 57 percent of the homeless population counted by HUD in King County was classified as unsheltered, either living in vehicles, encampments in public spaces, or other places.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The number of unsheltered individuals increased significantly in the late 2010s, leading to clearing of encampments and other structures by local governments.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The county has 5,115 emergency <a href="/wiki/Homeless_shelter" title="Homeless shelter">shelter</a> beds and <a href="/wiki/Tiny_house" class="mw-redirect" title="Tiny house">tiny house</a> villages, of which 67 percent are in the city of Seattle.<sup id="cite_ref-Times-Burden_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times-Burden-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to data from the KCRHA, since late 2022 over 90 percent of shelter beds have been occupied on a consistent basis.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additional shelters, parking lots, and encampment sites are operated by charity organizations and churches in the area;<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> during severe weather events such as heat waves and cold snaps, local governments open additional shelter spaces, but these often reach capacity.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2021, a total of $123 million was spent on homelessness services by local governments in King County, including cities and the regional authority.<sup id="cite_ref-Times-Burden_65-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times-Burden-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The regional authority's five-year plan, released in 2023, estimates that $8 billion in capital costs would be required to build and staff 18,205 new units of temporary and transitional housing to address the homelessness crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government">Government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/King_County_Executive" title="King County Executive">King County Executive</a> heads the county's executive branch; the position has been held by <a href="/wiki/Dow_Constantine" title="Dow Constantine">Dow Constantine</a> since 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/King_County_Prosecuting_Attorney" title="King County Prosecuting Attorney">King County Prosecuting Attorney</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Leesa_Manion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Leesa Manion (page does not exist)">Leesa Manion</a> since 2023), Elections Director, and the <a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County_Assessor&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="King County Assessor (page does not exist)">King County Assessor</a> are elected executive positions.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/King_County_Sheriff%27s_Office" title="King County Sheriff's Office">King County Sheriff</a> is appointed by the county executive and approved by the county council. It was previously an elected position from 1996 until 2020 and has been held by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Patti_Cole-Tindall&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Patti Cole-Tindall (page does not exist)">Patti Cole-Tindall</a> since 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Judicial power is vested in the <a href="/wiki/King_County_Superior_Court" title="King County Superior Court">King County Superior Court</a> and the <a href="/wiki/King_County_Courthouse" title="King County Courthouse">King County District Court</a>. <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a> houses the <a href="/wiki/King_County_Courthouse" title="King County Courthouse">King County Courthouse</a>. </p><p>The county government manages elections, records, licensing, parks, wastewater treatment, and public health, among other duties. It also handles the criminal legal and incarceration system for all cities and unincorporated areas within King County. It has a <a href="/wiki/King_County_Sheriff%27s_Office" title="King County Sheriff's Office">sheriff's department</a> that also provides basic policing to unincorporated areas.<sup id="cite_ref-Council-Guide_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Council-Guide-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Department of Local Services, established in 2019, serves as the local government for populated unincorporated areas.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>King County is part of four <a href="/wiki/Congressional_district" title="Congressional district">congressional districts</a> that each elect a member of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a>; the boundaries are redrawn every 10 years based on the results of the decennial census.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Washington%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="Washington's 1st congressional district">1st district</a> comprises the Eastside cities north of <a href="/wiki/Bellevue,_Washington" title="Bellevue, Washington">Bellevue</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Washington%27s_7th_congressional_district" title="Washington's 7th congressional district">7th district</a> includes northern Seattle, West Seattle, Burien, Normandy Park, and Vashon Island; the <a href="/wiki/Washington%27s_8th_congressional_district" title="Washington's 8th congressional district">8th district</a> includes areas east of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Sammamish" title="Lake Sammamish">Lake Sammamish</a> and the immediate Green River Valley; and the <a href="/wiki/Washington%27s_9th_congressional_district" title="Washington's 9th congressional district">9th district</a> comprises the southern areas of the county from Federal Way to Seattle, Mercer Island, and part of Bellevue.<sup id="cite_ref-King-Congressional_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-King-Congressional-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Washington_State_Legislature" title="Washington State Legislature">state legislature</a>, the county has 17 districts that each elect two <a href="/wiki/Washington_State_House_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington State House of Representatives">House</a> members and one <a href="/wiki/Washington_State_Senate" title="Washington State Senate">senator</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Legislature-Members_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Legislature-Members-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The majority of state legislators from King County are Democrats; only four House members and two senators are from the Republican Party.<sup id="cite_ref-Legislature-Members_78-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Legislature-Members-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The people of King County voted on September 5, 1911, to create a Port District. King County's <a href="/wiki/Port_of_Seattle" title="Port of Seattle">Port of Seattle</a> was established as the first Port District in Washington State. The Port of Seattle is King County's only Port District. It is governed by five Port Commissioners, who are elected countywide and serve four-year terms. The Port of Seattle owns and operates many properties on behalf of King County's citizens, including <a href="/wiki/Sea-Tac_International_Airport" class="mw-redirect" title="Sea-Tac International Airport">Sea-Tac International Airport</a>; many seaport facilities around <a href="/wiki/Elliott_Bay" title="Elliott Bay">Elliott Bay</a>, including its original property, publicly owned <a href="/wiki/Fishermen%27s_Terminal" title="Fishermen's Terminal">Fishermen's Terminal</a>, home to the North Pacific fishing fleet and the largest homeport for fishermen in the U.S. West Coast;<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2011)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> four <a href="/wiki/Container_ship" title="Container ship">container ship</a> terminals; two <a href="/wiki/Cruise_ship" title="Cruise ship">cruise ship</a> terminals; the largest grain export terminal in the U.S. Pacific Northwest; three public <a href="/wiki/Marina" title="Marina">marinas</a>; 22 public parks; and nearly 5,000 acres of industrial lands in the <a href="/wiki/Ballard,_Seattle,_Washington" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballard, Seattle, Washington">Ballard</a>-<a href="/wiki/Interbay_(Seattle)" class="mw-redirect" title="Interbay (Seattle)">Interbay</a> and <a href="/wiki/Harbor_Island_(Seattle)" class="mw-redirect" title="Harbor Island (Seattle)">Lower Duwamish industrial centers</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="County_council">County council</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: County council"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/King_County_Council" title="King County Council">King County Council</a></div> <p>The King County Council was established in 1969 and consists of nine members elected by districts to four-year terms.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style 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Zahilay">Girmay Zahilay</a></li> <li>District 3 – <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Perry" title="Sarah Perry">Sarah Perry</a></li> <li>District 4 – <a href="/wiki/Jorge_Bar%C3%B3n_(politician)" title="Jorge Barón (politician)">Jorge Barón</a></li> <li>District 5 – <a href="/wiki/Dave_Upthegrove" title="Dave Upthegrove">Dave Upthegrove</a></li> <li>District 6 – <a href="/wiki/Claudia_Balducci" title="Claudia Balducci">Claudia Balducci</a></li> <li>District 7 – <a href="/wiki/Pete_von_Reichbauer" title="Pete von Reichbauer">Pete von Reichbauer</a></li> <li>District 8 – <a href="/wiki/Teresa_Mosqueda" title="Teresa Mosqueda">Teresa Mosqueda</a></li> <li>District 9 – <a href="/wiki/Reagan_Dunn" title="Reagan Dunn">Reagan Dunn</a></li></ul> <p>  </p> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=21" 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No Republican presidential candidate has carried the county votes since <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>'s <a href="/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1984 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">landslide reelection victory in 1984</a>. In the <a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="2008 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">2008 election</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> defeated <a href="/wiki/John_McCain" title="John McCain">John McCain</a> in the county by 42 percentage points, a larger margin for the Democrats than that seen in any previous election up to that point in time. Slightly more than 29% of Washington state's population reside in King County, making it a significant factor for the Democrats in a few recent close statewide elections. In the <a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_Senate_election_in_Washington" title="2000 United States Senate election in Washington">2000 Senate election</a>, King County's margin of victory pushed <a href="/wiki/Maria_Cantwell" title="Maria Cantwell">Maria Cantwell</a>'s total over that of incumbent <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> <a href="/wiki/Slade_Gorton" title="Slade Gorton">Slade Gorton</a>, defeating and unseating him in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a>. In 2004, King County gave a lead to Democrat <a href="/wiki/Christine_Gregoire" title="Christine Gregoire">Christine Gregoire</a> in her 2004 victory <a href="/wiki/2004_Washington_gubernatorial_election" title="2004 Washington gubernatorial election">gubernatorial election</a>, pushing her ahead of Republican <a href="/wiki/Dino_Rossi" title="Dino Rossi">Dino Rossi</a>, who led by 261 votes after the initial count.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rossi resided in the county at the time of the election, in <a href="/wiki/Sammamish,_Washington" title="Sammamish, Washington">Sammamish</a>. In the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="2020 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">2020 presidential election</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> defeated <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> by earning 75% of King County votes. Governor <a href="/wiki/Jay_Inslee" title="Jay Inslee">Jay Inslee</a> also defeated Republican challenger Loren Culp with 74% of the King County vote in the <a href="/wiki/2020_Washington_gubernatorial_election" title="2020 Washington gubernatorial election">concurrent gubernatorial election</a>. These were the largest margins by any candidate in a presidential race and a gubernatorial race since the county's creation.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2004, voters passed a referendum reducing the size of the County Council from 13 members to 9. This resulted in all council seats ending up on the 2005 ballot. </p><p>Some residents of eastern King County have long desired to secede and form their own county. This movement was most vocal in the mid-1990s (see <i><a href="/wiki/Cedar_County,_Washington" class="mw-redirect" title="Cedar County, Washington">Cedar County, Washington</a></i>).<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has recently been revived as Cascade County.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to a map published by the <i><a href="/wiki/Seattle_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="Seattle Times">Seattle Times</a></i>, four different geographic borders were considered.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additional plans (see <i><a href="/wiki/Skykomish_County,_Washington" title="Skykomish County, Washington">Skykomish County, Washington</a></i>) also exist or have existed. </p> <table class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible floatright sticky-header-multi" style="font-size: 95%;"> <caption>United States presidential election results for King County, Washington<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" rowspan="2">Year </th> <th scope="col" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </th> <th scope="col" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </th> <th scope="col" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Third_party_(U.S._politics)" title="Third party (U.S. politics)">Third party(ies)</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th>No. </th> <th scope="col">%</th> <th scope="col">No. </th> <th scope="col">%</th> <th scope="col">No. </th> <th scope="col">% </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="2024 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">2024</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">252,193 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">22.31% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">832,606 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>73.65%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">45,703 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">4.04% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="2020 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">2020</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">269,167 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">22.24% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">907,310 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>74.95%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">34,030 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2.81% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="2016 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">2016</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">216,339 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">21.04% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">718,322 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>69.85%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">93,789 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">9.12% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/2012_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="2012 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">2012</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">275,700 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">28.36% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">668,004 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>68.72%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">28,317 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2.91% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="2008 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">2008</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">259,716 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">28.03% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">648,230 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>69.97%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">18,511 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2.00% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/2004_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="2004 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">2004</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">301,043 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">33.65% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">580,378 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>64.87%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">13,307 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.49% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="2000 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">2000</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">273,171 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">34.40% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">476,700 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>60.02%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">44,325 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">5.58% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1996_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1996 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1996</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">232,811 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">31.41% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">417,846 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>56.38%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">90,447 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">12.20% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1992_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1992 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1992</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">212,986 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">27.36% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">391,050 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>50.23%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">174,557 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">22.42% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1988_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1988 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1988</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">290,574 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">44.78% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">349,663 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>53.88%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">8,720 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.34% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1984 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1984</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">332,987 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>52.09%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">298,620 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">46.71% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">7,654 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.20% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1980_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1980 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1980</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">272,567 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>45.42%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">235,046 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">39.16% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">92,544 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">15.42% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1976_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1976 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1976</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">279,382 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>50.79%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">248,743 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">45.22% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">21,994 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">4.00% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1972_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1972 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1972</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">298,707 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>56.39%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">212,509 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">40.12% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">18,478 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">3.49% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1968_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1968 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1968</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">218,457 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">46.00% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">223,469 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>47.05%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">33,009 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">6.95% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1964_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1964 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1964</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">177,598 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">39.41% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">268,216 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>59.52%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">4,826 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.07% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1960 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1960</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">224,150 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>50.85%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">208,756 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">47.36% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">7,904 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.79% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1956_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1956 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1956</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">213,504 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>55.28%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">167,443 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">43.35% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">5,276 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.37% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1952_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1952 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1952</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">200,507 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>53.93%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">165,583 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">44.54% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">5,681 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.53% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1948_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1948 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1948</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">131,039 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">44.93% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">143,295 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>49.14%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">17,301 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">5.93% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1944_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1944 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1944</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">118,719 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">41.42% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">165,308 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>57.68%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2,577 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.90% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1940_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1940 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1940</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">95,504 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">39.50% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">143,134 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>59.19%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">3,165 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.31% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1936_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1936 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1936</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">66,544 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">31.68% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">138,597 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>65.98%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">4,904 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2.33% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1932_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1932 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1932</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">63,346 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">34.42% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">108,738 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>59.09%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">11,947 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">6.49% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1928_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1928 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1928</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">96,263 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>65.63%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">46,604 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">31.77% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">3,811 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2.60% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1924_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1924 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1924</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">60,438 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>53.51%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">7,404 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">6.56% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">45,098 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">39.93% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1920_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1920 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1920</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">58,584 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>54.69%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">17,369 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">16.21% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">31,171 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">29.10% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1916_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1916 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1916</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">38,959 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">40.71% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">52,362 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>54.71%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">4,387 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">4.58% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#C97979"><b><a href="/wiki/1912_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1912 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1912</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">15,579 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">21.85% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">20,088 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">28.17% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">35,642 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;"><b>49.98%</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1908_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1908 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1908</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">22,297 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>55.75%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">14,644 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">36.62% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">3,052 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">7.63% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1904_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1904 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1904</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">20,434 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>70.39%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">5,266 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">18.14% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">3,329 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">11.47% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1900_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1900 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1900</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">10,218 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>54.26%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">7,804 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">41.44% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">810 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">4.30% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1896_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1896 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1896</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">6,413 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">44.83% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">7,733 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>54.06%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">159 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.11% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1892_United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state)" title="1892 United States presidential election in Washington (state)">1892</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">6,520 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>44.17%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">4,974 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">33.69% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">3,268 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">22.14% </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="K–12_schools"><span id="K.E2.80.9312_schools"></span>K–12 schools</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: K–12 schools"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>School districts in the county include:<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Auburn_School_District" title="Auburn School District">Auburn School District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bellevue_School_District" title="Bellevue School District">Bellevue School District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enumclaw_School_District" title="Enumclaw School District">Enumclaw School District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Way_Public_Schools" title="Federal Way Public Schools">Federal Way Public Schools</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fife_Public_Schools" title="Fife Public Schools">Fife Public Schools</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highline_School_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Highline School District">Highline School District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Issaquah_School_District" title="Issaquah School District">Issaquah School District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kent_School_District" title="Kent School District">Kent School District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Washington_School_District" title="Lake Washington School District">Lake Washington School District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercer_Island_School_District" title="Mercer Island School District">Mercer Island School District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northshore_School_District" title="Northshore School District">Northshore School District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renton_School_District" title="Renton School District">Renton School District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riverview_School_District_(Washington)" title="Riverview School District (Washington)">Riverview School District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seattle_Public_Schools" title="Seattle Public Schools">Seattle Public Schools</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shoreline_School_District" title="Shoreline School District">Shoreline School District</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Skykomish_School_District&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Skykomish School District (page does not exist)">Skykomish School District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snoqualmie_Valley_School_District" title="Snoqualmie Valley School District">Snoqualmie Valley School District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tahoma_School_District" title="Tahoma School District">Tahoma School District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tukwila_School_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Tukwila School District">Tukwila School District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vashon_Island_School_District" title="Vashon Island School District">Vashon Island School District</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Public_libraries">Public libraries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Public libraries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Most of King County is served by the <a href="/wiki/King_County_Library_System" title="King County Library System">King County Library System</a>, with the exception of Seattle, <a href="/wiki/Hunts_Point,_Washington" title="Hunts Point, Washington">Hunts Point</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Yarrow_Point,_Washington" title="Yarrow Point, Washington">Yarrow Point</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The city of Seattle is served by the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Public_Library" title="Seattle Public Library">Seattle Public Library</a> system, which has 27 branches compared to King County's 49 locations.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Communities">Communities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Communities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Category:Cities_in_King_County,_Washington" title="Category:Cities in King County, Washington">Category:Cities in King County, Washington</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cities">Cities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Cities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 15em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Algona,_Washington" title="Algona, Washington">Algona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auburn,_Washington" title="Auburn, Washington">Auburn</a> (partial)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bellevue,_Washington" title="Bellevue, Washington">Bellevue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Diamond,_Washington" title="Black Diamond, Washington">Black Diamond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bothell,_Washington" title="Bothell, Washington">Bothell</a> (partial)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burien,_Washington" title="Burien, Washington">Burien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carnation,_Washington" title="Carnation, Washington">Carnation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clyde_Hill,_Washington" title="Clyde Hill, Washington">Clyde Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Covington,_Washington" title="Covington, Washington">Covington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Des_Moines,_Washington" title="Des Moines, Washington">Des Moines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duvall,_Washington" title="Duvall, Washington">Duvall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enumclaw,_Washington" title="Enumclaw, Washington">Enumclaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Way,_Washington" title="Federal Way, Washington">Federal Way</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Issaquah,_Washington" title="Issaquah, Washington">Issaquah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenmore,_Washington" title="Kenmore, Washington">Kenmore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kent,_Washington" title="Kent, Washington">Kent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirkland,_Washington" title="Kirkland, Washington">Kirkland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Forest_Park,_Washington" title="Lake Forest Park, Washington">Lake Forest Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maple_Valley,_Washington" title="Maple Valley, Washington">Maple Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medina,_Washington" title="Medina, Washington">Medina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercer_Island,_Washington" title="Mercer Island, Washington">Mercer Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milton,_Washington" title="Milton, Washington">Milton</a> (partial)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newcastle,_Washington" title="Newcastle, Washington">Newcastle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Normandy_Park,_Washington" title="Normandy Park, Washington">Normandy Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Bend,_Washington" title="North Bend, Washington">North Bend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pacific,_Washington" title="Pacific, Washington">Pacific</a> (partial)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redmond,_Washington" title="Redmond, Washington">Redmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renton,_Washington" title="Renton, Washington">Renton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sammamish,_Washington" title="Sammamish, Washington">Sammamish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SeaTac,_Washington" title="SeaTac, Washington">SeaTac</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a> (county seat)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shoreline,_Washington" title="Shoreline, Washington">Shoreline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snoqualmie,_Washington" title="Snoqualmie, Washington">Snoqualmie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tukwila,_Washington" title="Tukwila, Washington">Tukwila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woodinville,_Washington" title="Woodinville, Washington">Woodinville</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Towns">Towns</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Towns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beaux_Arts_Village,_Washington" title="Beaux Arts Village, Washington">Beaux Arts Village</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunts_Point,_Washington" title="Hunts Point, Washington">Hunts Point</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skykomish,_Washington" title="Skykomish, Washington">Skykomish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarrow_Point,_Washington" title="Yarrow Point, Washington">Yarrow Point</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Census-designated_places">Census-designated places</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Census-designated places"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 15em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ames_Lake,_Washington" title="Ames Lake, Washington">Ames Lake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baring,_Washington" title="Baring, Washington">Baring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boulevard_Park,_Washington" title="Boulevard Park, Washington">Boulevard Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bryn_Mawr-Skyway,_Washington" title="Bryn Mawr-Skyway, Washington">Bryn Mawr-Skyway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cottage_Lake,_Washington" title="Cottage Lake, Washington">Cottage Lake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Renton_Highlands,_Washington" title="East Renton Highlands, Washington">East Renton Highlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairwood,_King_County,_Washington" title="Fairwood, King County, Washington">Fairwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_City,_Washington" title="Fall City, Washington">Fall City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hobart,_Washington" title="Hobart, Washington">Hobart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inglewood-Finn_Hill,_Washington" title="Inglewood-Finn Hill, Washington">Inglewood-Finn Hill</a> (former)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klahanie,_Washington" title="Klahanie, Washington">Klahanie</a> (former)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Holm,_Washington" title="Lake Holm, Washington">Lake Holm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Marcel-Stillwater,_Washington" title="Lake Marcel-Stillwater, Washington">Lake Marcel-Stillwater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Morton-Berrydale,_Washington" title="Lake Morton-Berrydale, Washington">Lake Morton-Berrydale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakeland_North,_Washington" title="Lakeland North, Washington">Lakeland North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakeland_South,_Washington" title="Lakeland South, Washington">Lakeland South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maple_Heights-Lake_Desire,_Washington" title="Maple Heights-Lake Desire, Washington">Maple Heights-Lake Desire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mirrormont,_Washington" title="Mirrormont, Washington">Mirrormont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravensdale,_Washington" title="Ravensdale, Washington">Ravensdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riverbend,_Washington" title="Riverbend, Washington">Riverbend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riverpoint,_Washington" title="Riverpoint, Washington">Riverpoint</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riverton,_Washington" title="Riverton, Washington">Riverton</a> (former)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Lake,_Washington" title="Shadow Lake, Washington">Shadow Lake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_Hill-Novelty_Hill,_Washington" title="Union Hill-Novelty Hill, Washington">Union Hill-Novelty Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vashon,_Washington" title="Vashon, Washington">Vashon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Center,_Washington" title="White Center, Washington">White Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilderness_Rim,_Washington" title="Wilderness Rim, Washington">Wilderness Rim</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_unincorporated_communities">Other unincorporated communities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Other unincorporated communities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 15em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cedar_Falls,_Washington" title="Cedar Falls, Washington">Cedar Falls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumberland,_Washington" title="Cumberland, Washington">Cumberland</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Denny_Creek,_Washington&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Denny Creek, Washington (page does not exist)">Denny Creek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernie%27s_Grove,_Washington" title="Ernie's Grove, Washington">Ernie's Grove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grotto,_Washington" title="Grotto, Washington">Grotto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanaskat,_Washington" title="Kanaskat, Washington">Kanaskat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kangley,_Washington" title="Kangley, Washington">Kangley</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lake_Joy,_Washington&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lake Joy, Washington (page does not exist)">Lake Joy</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Naco,_Washington&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Naco, Washington (page does not exist)">Naco</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Novelty,_Washington&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Novelty, Washington (page does not exist)">Novelty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palmer,_Washington" title="Palmer, Washington">Palmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Preston,_Washington" title="Preston, Washington">Preston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selleck,_Washington" title="Selleck, Washington">Selleck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spring_Glen,_Washington" title="Spring Glen, Washington">Spring Glen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wabash,_King_County,_Washington" class="mw-redirect" title="Wabash, King County, Washington">Wabash</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Former_cities_and_towns">Former cities and towns</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Former cities and towns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/East_Redmond,_Washington" title="East Redmond, Washington">East Redmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foster,_Washington" title="Foster, Washington">Foster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Houghton,_Washington" title="Houghton, Washington">Houghton</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ghost_towns">Ghost towns</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Ghost towns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1184024115"><div class="div-col"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bayne,_Washington" title="Bayne, Washington">Bayne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cedar_Falls,_Washington" title="Cedar Falls, Washington">Cedar Falls (aka Moncton)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgewick,_Washington" title="Edgewick, Washington">Edgewick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin,_Washington" title="Franklin, Washington">Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hot_Springs,_Washington" title="Hot Springs, Washington">Hot Springs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krain,_Washington" title="Krain, Washington">Krain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lester,_Washington" title="Lester, Washington">Lester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monohon,_Washington" title="Monohon, Washington">Monohon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nagrom,_Washington" title="Nagrom, Washington">Nagrom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/O%27Brien,_Washington" title="O'Brien, Washington">O'Brien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osceola,_Washington" title="Osceola, Washington">Osceola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taylor,_Washington" title="Taylor, Washington">Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wellington,_Washington" title="Wellington, Washington">Wellington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weston,_Washington" title="Weston, Washington">Weston</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_memorials_to_Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="List of memorials to Martin Luther King Jr.">List of memorials to Martin Luther King Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_King_County,_Washington" title="National Register of Historic Places listings in King County, Washington">National Register of Historic Places listings in King County, Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tukwila_Formation" title="Tukwila Formation">Tukwila Formation</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=King_County,_Washington&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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County, Washington</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><table role="presentation" style="width:100%; margin:0; text-align:center;"><tbody><tr> <td></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Snohomish_County,_Washington" title="Snohomish County, Washington">Snohomish County</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chelan_County,_Washington" title="Chelan County, Washington">Chelan County</a></td> </tr><tr> <td></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="North"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pfeil_oben.svg/14px-Pfeil_oben.svg.png" decoding="async" width="14" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pfeil_oben.svg/21px-Pfeil_oben.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pfeil_oben.svg/28px-Pfeil_oben.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></td> <td></td> </tr><tr> <td style="width:33%"><a href="/wiki/Kitsap_County,_Washington" title="Kitsap County, Washington">Kitsap County</a></td> <td style="width:33%;"> <div style="white-space:nowrap;"><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><span title="West"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Pfeil_links.svg/17px-Pfeil_links.svg.png" decoding="async" width="17" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Pfeil_links.svg/25px-Pfeil_links.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Pfeil_links.svg/34px-Pfeil_links.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="500" /></span></span><b style="display:inline-block; vertical-align:middle; margin:0.75em 1em">King County, Washington</b><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><span title="East"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Pfeil_rechts.svg/17px-Pfeil_rechts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="17" 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href="/wiki/Kittitas_County,_Washington" title="Kittitas County, Washington">Kittitas County</a></td> </tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Municipalities_and_communities_of_King_County,_Washington,_United_States698" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3" style="background:#B4DDB4;color:inherit;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a 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href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat"><span>County seat</span></a>: <b><a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle"><span>Seattle</span></a></b></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#B4DDB4;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Washington" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities in Washington">Cities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Algona,_Washington" title="Algona, Washington">Algona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Auburn,_Washington" title="Auburn, Washington">Auburn</a>‡</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bellevue,_Washington" title="Bellevue, Washington">Bellevue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Diamond,_Washington" title="Black Diamond, Washington">Black Diamond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bothell,_Washington" title="Bothell, Washington">Bothell</a>‡</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burien,_Washington" title="Burien, Washington">Burien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carnation,_Washington" title="Carnation, Washington">Carnation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clyde_Hill,_Washington" title="Clyde Hill, Washington">Clyde Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Covington,_Washington" title="Covington, Washington">Covington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Des_Moines,_Washington" title="Des Moines, Washington">Des Moines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duvall,_Washington" title="Duvall, Washington">Duvall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enumclaw,_Washington" title="Enumclaw, Washington">Enumclaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federal_Way,_Washington" title="Federal Way, Washington">Federal Way</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Issaquah,_Washington" title="Issaquah, Washington">Issaquah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenmore,_Washington" title="Kenmore, Washington">Kenmore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kent,_Washington" title="Kent, Washington">Kent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirkland,_Washington" title="Kirkland, Washington">Kirkland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Forest_Park,_Washington" title="Lake Forest Park, Washington">Lake Forest Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maple_Valley,_Washington" title="Maple Valley, Washington">Maple Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medina,_Washington" title="Medina, Washington">Medina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercer_Island,_Washington" title="Mercer Island, Washington">Mercer Island</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milton,_Washington" title="Milton, Washington">Milton</a>‡</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Newcastle,_Washington" title="Newcastle, Washington">Newcastle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Normandy_Park,_Washington" title="Normandy Park, Washington">Normandy Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Bend,_Washington" title="North Bend, Washington">North Bend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pacific,_Washington" title="Pacific, Washington">Pacific</a>‡</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redmond,_Washington" title="Redmond, Washington">Redmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renton,_Washington" title="Renton, Washington">Renton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sammamish,_Washington" title="Sammamish, Washington">Sammamish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SeaTac,_Washington" title="SeaTac, Washington">SeaTac</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shoreline,_Washington" title="Shoreline, Washington">Shoreline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Snoqualmie,_Washington" title="Snoqualmie, Washington">Snoqualmie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tukwila,_Washington" title="Tukwila, Washington">Tukwila</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woodinville,_Washington" title="Woodinville, Washington">Woodinville</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="7" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><span title="King County map"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Map_of_Washington_highlighting_King_County.svg/100px-Map_of_Washington_highlighting_King_County.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="65" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Map_of_Washington_highlighting_King_County.svg/150px-Map_of_Washington_highlighting_King_County.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Map_of_Washington_highlighting_King_County.svg/200px-Map_of_Washington_highlighting_King_County.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1696" data-file-height="1104" /></span><figcaption>King County map</figcaption></figure></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#B4DDB4;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_towns_in_Washington" class="mw-redirect" title="List of towns in Washington">Towns</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beaux_Arts_Village,_Washington" title="Beaux Arts Village, Washington">Beaux Arts Village</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hunts_Point,_Washington" title="Hunts Point, Washington">Hunts Point</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skykomish,_Washington" title="Skykomish, Washington">Skykomish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yarrow_Point,_Washington" title="Yarrow Point, Washington">Yarrow Point</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#B4DDB4;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_census-designated_places_in_Washington" title="List of census-designated places in Washington">CDPs</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ames_Lake,_Washington" title="Ames Lake, Washington">Ames Lake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baring,_Washington" title="Baring, Washington">Baring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boulevard_Park,_Washington" title="Boulevard Park, Washington">Boulevard Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bryn_Mawr-Skyway,_Washington" title="Bryn Mawr-Skyway, Washington">Bryn Mawr-Skyway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cottage_Lake,_Washington" title="Cottage Lake, Washington">Cottage Lake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Renton_Highlands,_Washington" title="East Renton Highlands, Washington">East Renton Highlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Hill-Meridian,_Washington" title="East Hill-Meridian, Washington">East Hill-Meridian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairwood,_King_County,_Washington" title="Fairwood, King County, Washington">Fairwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_City,_Washington" title="Fall City, Washington">Fall City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hobart,_Washington" title="Hobart, Washington">Hobart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klahanie,_Washington" title="Klahanie, Washington">Klahanie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Holm,_Washington" title="Lake Holm, Washington">Lake Holm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Marcel-Stillwater,_Washington" title="Lake Marcel-Stillwater, Washington">Lake Marcel-Stillwater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Morton-Berrydale,_Washington" title="Lake Morton-Berrydale, Washington">Lake Morton-Berrydale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakeland_North,_Washington" title="Lakeland North, Washington">Lakeland North</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakeland_South,_Washington" title="Lakeland South, Washington">Lakeland South</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maple_Heights-Lake_Desire,_Washington" title="Maple Heights-Lake Desire, Washington">Maple Heights-Lake Desire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mirrormont,_Washington" title="Mirrormont, Washington">Mirrormont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ravensdale,_Washington" title="Ravensdale, Washington">Ravensdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riverbend,_Washington" title="Riverbend, Washington">Riverbend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riverpoint,_Washington" title="Riverpoint, Washington">Riverpoint</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Riverton,_Washington" title="Riverton, Washington">Riverton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Lake,_Washington" title="Shadow Lake, Washington">Shadow Lake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_Hill-Novelty_Hill,_Washington" title="Union Hill-Novelty Hill, Washington">Union Hill-Novelty Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vashon,_Washington" title="Vashon, Washington">Vashon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White_Center,_Washington" title="White Center, Washington">White Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilderness_Rim,_Washington" title="Wilderness Rim, Washington">Wilderness Rim</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#B4DDB4;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_unincorporated_communities_in_Washington" title="List of unincorporated communities in Washington">Other<br />communities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bayne_Junction,_Washington" class="mw-redirect" title="Bayne Junction, Washington">Bayne Junction</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumberland,_Washington" title="Cumberland, Washington">Cumberland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Redmond,_Washington" title="East Redmond, Washington">East Redmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgewick,_Washington" title="Edgewick, Washington">Edgewick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernie%27s_Grove,_Washington" title="Ernie's Grove, Washington">Ernie's Grove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grotto,_Washington" title="Grotto, Washington">Grotto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/High_Point,_Washington" title="High Point, Washington">High Point</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanaskat,_Washington" title="Kanaskat, Washington">Kanaskat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kangley,_Washington" title="Kangley, Washington">Kangley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krain,_Washington" title="Krain, Washington">Krain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lisabeula,_Washington" title="Lisabeula, Washington">Lisabeula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magnolia_Beach,_Washington" title="Magnolia Beach, Washington">Magnolia Beach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palmer,_Washington" title="Palmer, Washington">Palmer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Preston,_Washington" title="Preston, Washington">Preston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raeco,_Washington" title="Raeco, Washington">Raeco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selleck,_Washington" title="Selleck, Washington">Selleck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spring_Glen,_Washington" title="Spring Glen, Washington">Spring Glen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stillwater,_Washington" title="Stillwater, Washington">Stillwater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Veazie,_Washington" title="Veazie, Washington">Veazie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wabash,_King_County,_Washington" class="mw-redirect" title="Wabash, King County, Washington">Wabash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/White,_Washington" title="White, Washington">White</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#B4DDB4;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_reservations_in_Washington" title="List of Indian reservations in Washington">Indian reservation</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Muckleshoot_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Muckleshoot people">Muckleshoot Reservation</a>‡</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#B4DDB4;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_ghost_towns_in_Washington" title="List of ghost towns in Washington">Ghost towns</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alpine,_King_County,_Washington" title="Alpine, King County, Washington">Alpine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barneston,_Washington" title="Barneston, Washington">Barneston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bayne,_Washington" title="Bayne, Washington">Bayne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher,_Washington" title="Christopher, Washington">Christopher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foster,_Washington" title="Foster, Washington">Foster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin,_Washington" title="Franklin, Washington">Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hot_Springs,_Washington" title="Hot Springs, Washington">Hot Springs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerriston,_Washington" title="Kerriston, Washington">Kerriston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lester,_Washington" title="Lester, Washington">Lester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monohon,_Washington" title="Monohon, Washington">Monohon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nagrom,_Washington" title="Nagrom, Washington">Nagrom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/O%27Brien,_Washington" title="O'Brien, Washington">O'Brien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orillia,_Washington" title="Orillia, Washington">Orillia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Osceola,_Washington" title="Osceola, Washington">Osceola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Page,_Washington" title="Page, Washington">Page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rockdale,_Washington" title="Rockdale, Washington">Rockdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheridan,_Washington" title="Sheridan, Washington">Sheridan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taylor,_Washington" title="Taylor, Washington">Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas,_Washington" title="Thomas, Washington">Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wellington,_Washington" title="Wellington, Washington">Wellington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weston,_Washington" title="Weston, Washington">Weston</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#B4DDB4;color:inherit;">Footnotes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">‡This populated place also 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Puget_Sound" title="Puget Sound">Puget Sound</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cascade_Range" title="Cascade Range">Cascade Range</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Rainier" title="Mount Rainier">Mount Rainier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glacier_Peak" title="Glacier Peak">Glacier Peak</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Washington" title="Lake Washington">Lake Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Sammamish" title="Lake Sammamish">Lake Sammamish</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Martin_Luther_King_Jr.26" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Template:Martin Luther King Jr."><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Template talk:Martin Luther King Jr."><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Special:EditPage/Template:Martin Luther King Jr."><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Martin_Luther_King_Jr.26" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Martin Luther King Jr.">Martin Luther King Jr.</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible uncollapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Speeches,_writings,_movements,_and_protests26" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Speeches, writings, movements, and protests</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sermons_and_speeches_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Sermons and speeches of Martin Luther King Jr.">Speeches</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/Give_Us_the_Ballot" title="Give Us the Ballot">Give Us the Ballot</a>" (1957)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/I_Have_a_Dream" title="I Have a Dream">I Have a Dream</a>" (1963)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/How_Long,_Not_Long" title="How Long, Not Long">How Long, Not Long</a>" (1965)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/Beyond_Vietnam:_A_Time_to_Break_Silence" title="Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence">Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence</a>" (1967)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/I%27ve_Been_to_the_Mountaintop" title="I've Been to the Mountaintop">I've Been to the Mountaintop</a>" (1968)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Writings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Stride_Toward_Freedom" title="Stride Toward Freedom">Stride Toward Freedom</a></i> (1958)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/What_Is_Man%3F_(King_essay)" class="mw-redirect" title="What Is Man? (King essay)">What Is Man?</a>" (1959)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/Second_Emancipation_Proclamation" title="Second Emancipation Proclamation">Second Emancipation Proclamation</a>"</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Strength_to_Love" title="Strength to Love">Strength to Love</a></i> (1963)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/Letter_from_Birmingham_Jail" title="Letter from Birmingham Jail">Letter from Birmingham Jail</a>" (1963)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Why_We_Can%27t_Wait" title="Why We Can't Wait">Why We Can't Wait</a></i> (1964)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Conscience_for_Change" title="Conscience for Change">Conscience for Change</a></i> (1967)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Where_Do_We_Go_from_Here:_Chaos_or_Community%3F" title="Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?">Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?</a></i> (1967)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Civil_rights_movement" title="Civil rights movement">Movements<br />and protests</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Montgomery_bus_boycott" title="Montgomery bus boycott">Montgomery bus boycott</a> (1955–1956)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Prayer_Pilgrimage_for_Freedom" title="Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom">Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom</a> (1957)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Albany_Movement" title="Albany Movement">Albany Movement</a> (1961–1962)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Birmingham_campaign" title="Birmingham campaign">Birmingham campaign</a> (1963)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/March_on_Washington" title="March on Washington">March on Washington</a> (1963)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/St._Augustine_movement" title="St. Augustine movement">St. Augustine movement</a> (1963–1964)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Selma_to_Montgomery_marches" title="Selma to Montgomery marches">Selma to Montgomery marches</a> (1965)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Freedom_Movement" title="Chicago Freedom Movement">Chicago Freedom Movement</a> (1966)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/March_Against_Fear" title="March Against Fear">Mississippi March Against Fear</a> (1966)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anti-Vietnam_War_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Vietnam War movement">Anti-Vietnam</a> <a href="/wiki/National_Mobilization_Committee_to_End_the_War_in_Vietnam#April_15,_1967_Anti-Vietnam_war_demonstrations" title="National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam">War movement</a> (1967)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Memphis_sanitation_strike" title="Memphis sanitation strike">Memphis sanitation strike</a> (1968)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Poor_People%27s_Campaign" title="Poor People's Campaign">Poor People's Campaign</a> (1968)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Organizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Montgomery_Improvement_Association" title="Montgomery Improvement Association">Montgomery Improvement Association</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference" title="Southern Christian Leadership Conference">Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="People26" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">People</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Family</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Coretta_Scott_King" title="Coretta Scott King">Coretta Scott King</a> (wife)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Yolanda_King" title="Yolanda King">Yolanda King</a> (daughter)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_III" title="Martin Luther King III">Martin Luther King III</a> (son)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dexter_King" title="Dexter King">Dexter King</a> (son)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bernice_King" title="Bernice King">Bernice King</a> (daughter)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Sr." title="Martin Luther King Sr.">Martin Luther King Sr.</a> (father)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alberta_Williams_King" title="Alberta Williams King">Alberta Williams King</a> (mother)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Christine_King_Farris" title="Christine King Farris">Christine King Farris</a> (sister)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/A._D._King" title="A. D. King">A. D. King</a> (brother)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_Albert_King" title="James Albert King">James Albert King</a> (grandfather)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alveda_King" title="Alveda King">Alveda King</a> (niece)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other<br />leaders</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Abernathy" title="Ralph Abernathy">Ralph Abernathy</a> (mentor, colleague)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ella_Baker" title="Ella Baker">Ella Baker</a> (colleague)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_Bevel" title="James Bevel">James Bevel</a> (strategist / colleague)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Cotton" title="Dorothy Cotton">Dorothy Cotton</a> (colleague)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jesse_Jackson" title="Jesse Jackson">Jesse Jackson</a> (protégé)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Lafayette" title="Bernard Lafayette">Bernard Lafayette</a> (colleague)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_Lawson_(activist)" title="James Lawson (activist)">James Lawson</a> (colleague)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Lewis" title="John Lewis">John Lewis</a> (colleague)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Lowery" title="Joseph Lowery">Joseph Lowery</a> (colleague)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Mays" title="Benjamin Mays">Benjamin Mays</a> (mentor)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Diane_Nash" title="Diane Nash">Diane Nash</a> (colleague)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_Orange" title="James Orange">James Orange</a> (colleague)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bayard_Rustin" title="Bayard Rustin">Bayard Rustin</a> (advisor)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Fred_Shuttlesworth" title="Fred Shuttlesworth">Fred Shuttlesworth</a> (colleague)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/C._T._Vivian" title="C. T. Vivian">C. T. Vivian</a> (colleague)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Wyatt_Tee_Walker" title="Wyatt Tee Walker">Wyatt Walker</a> (colleague)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Hosea_Williams" title="Hosea Williams">Hosea Williams</a> (colleague)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Young" title="Andrew Young">Andrew Young</a> (colleague)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Assassination26" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.">Assassination</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Civil_Rights_Museum" title="National Civil Rights Museum">Lorraine Motel</a> (now National Civil Rights Museum)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King-assassination_riots" class="mw-redirect" title="King-assassination riots">Riots</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Funeral_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Funeral of Martin Luther King Jr.">Funeral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Earl_Ray" title="James Earl Ray">James Earl Ray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Kershaw" title="Jack Kershaw">Jack Kershaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_Assassinations" title="United States House Select Committee on Assassinations">U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations</a> (HSCA)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Records_Collection_Act" title="Martin Luther King Jr. Records Collection Act">Martin Luther King Jr. Records Collection Act</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loyd_Jowers" title="Loyd Jowers">Loyd Jowers</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Loyd_Jowers_trial" title="Loyd Jowers trial">Trial</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._assassination_conspiracy_theories" title="Martin Luther King Jr. assassination conspiracy theories">Conspiracy theories</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Media26" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Media</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Film</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/King:_A_Filmed_Record..._Montgomery_to_Memphis" title="King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis">King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis</a></i> (1970 documentary)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Our_Friend,_Martin" title="Our Friend, Martin">Our Friend, Martin</a></i> (1999 animated)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Boycott_(2001_film)" title="Boycott (2001 film)"><i>Boycott</i></a> (2001 film)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Witness:_From_the_Balcony_of_Room_306" title="The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306">The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306</a></i> (2008 documentary)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Selma_(film)" title="Selma (film)">Selma</a></i> (2014 film)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/All_the_Way_(2016_film)" title="All the Way (2016 film)"><i>All the Way</i></a> (2016 film)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/King_in_the_Wilderness" title="King in the Wilderness">King in the Wilderness</a></i> (2018 documentary)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/MLK/FBI" title="MLK/FBI">MLK/FBI</a></i> (2020 documentary)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Rustin_(film)" title="Rustin (film)">Rustin</a></i> (2023 film)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Television</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/King_(miniseries)" title="King (miniseries)"><i>King</i></a> (1978 miniseries)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/The_First_Store" title="The First Store">The First Store</a>" (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Jeffersons" title="The Jeffersons">The Jeffersons</a></i>, 1980)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"Great X-Pectations" (<i><a href="/wiki/A_Different_World" title="A Different World">A Different World</a></i>, 1993)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/The_Promised_Land_(New_York_Undercover)" title="The Promised Land (New York Undercover)">"The Promised Land"</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Undercover" title="New York Undercover">New York Undercover</a></i>, 1997)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Selma,_Lord,_Selma" title="Selma, Lord, Selma">Selma, Lord, Selma</a></i> (1999)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Return_of_the_King_(The_Boondocks)" title="Return of the King (The Boondocks)">"Return of the King"</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Boondocks_(TV_series)" title="The Boondocks (TV series)">The Boondocks</a></i>, 2006)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Alpha_Man:_The_Brotherhood_of_MLK" title="Alpha Man: The Brotherhood of MLK">Alpha Man: The Brotherhood of MLK</a></i> (2011 documentary)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Genius_(American_TV_series)" title="Genius (American TV series)">Genius</a></i> (<i>MLK/X</i>, 2024)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Meeting_(play)" title="The Meeting (play)">The Meeting</a></i> (1987)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Mountaintop" title="The Mountaintop">The Mountaintop</a></i> (2009)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/I_Dream_(opera)" class="mw-redirect" title="I Dream (opera)">I Dream</a></i> (2010)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/All_the_Way_(play)" title="All the Way (play)">All the Way</a></i> (2012)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Books</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Stride_Toward_Freedom" title="Stride Toward Freedom">Stride Toward Freedom</a></i> (1958)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Bearing_the_Cross" title="Bearing the Cross">Bearing the Cross</a></i> (1986)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/King:_A_Life" title="King: A Life">King: A Life</a></i> (2023)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Illustrated</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_and_the_Montgomery_Story" title="Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story">Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story</a></i> (1957 comic book)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Music</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/Abraham,_Martin_and_John" title="Abraham, Martin and John">Abraham, Martin and John</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Dion_DiMucci" title="Dion DiMucci">Dion</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/The_Yellow_Princess_(album)#Track_listing" title="The Yellow Princess (album)">March! For Martin Luther King</a>" (<a href="/wiki/John_Fahey_(musician)" title="John Fahey (musician)">John Fahey</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/Just_a_Collection_of_Antiques_and_Curios#Track_listing" title="Just a Collection of Antiques and Curios">Martin Luther King's Dream</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Strawbs" title="Strawbs">Strawbs</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/Happy_Birthday_(Stevie_Wonder_song)" title="Happy Birthday (Stevie Wonder song)">Happy Birthday</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Stevie_Wonder" title="Stevie Wonder">Stevie Wonder</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/Pride_(In_the_Name_of_Love)" title="Pride (In the Name of Love)">Pride (In the Name of Love)</a>" (<a href="/wiki/U2" title="U2">U2</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/MLK_(song)" title="MLK (song)">MLK</a>" (U2)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/King_Holiday" title="King Holiday">King Holiday</a>" (<a href="/wiki/King_Dream_Chorus_and_Holiday_Crew" class="mw-redirect" title="King Dream Chorus and Holiday Crew">King Dream Chorus and Holiday Crew</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"By the Time I Get to Arizona" (<a href="/wiki/Public_Enemy_(band)" class="mw-redirect" title="Public Enemy (band)">Public Enemy</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/New_Moon_Shine" title="New Moon Shine">Shed a Little Light</a>" (<a href="/wiki/James_Taylor" title="James Taylor">James Taylor</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/Up_to_the_Mountain_(MLK_Song)" title="Up to the Mountain (MLK Song)">Up to the Mountain</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Patti_Griffin" class="mw-redirect" title="Patti Griffin">Patti Griffin</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"Never Alone Martin" (<a href="/wiki/Jason_Upton" title="Jason Upton">Jason Upton</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"Symphony of Brotherhood" (<a href="/wiki/Miri_Ben-Ari" title="Miri Ben-Ari">Miri Ben-Ari</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Schwantner:_New_Morning_for_the_World;_Nicolas_Flagello:_The_Passion_of_Martin_Luther_King" title="Joseph Schwantner: New Morning for the World; Nicolas Flagello: The Passion of Martin Luther King">Joseph Schwantner: New Morning for the World; Nicolas Flagello: The Passion of Martin Luther King</a></i> (1995 album)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/A_Dream_(Common_song)" title="A Dream (Common song)">A Dream</a>" (<a href="/wiki/Common_(rapper)" title="Common (rapper)">Common</a> featuring <a href="/wiki/Will.i.am" title="Will.i.am">will.i.am</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Glory_(Common_and_John_Legend_song)" title="Glory (Common and John Legend song)">"Glory"</a> (Common and <a href="/wiki/John_Legend" title="John Legend">John Legend</a>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Civil_rights_movement_in_popular_culture" title="Civil rights movement in popular culture">Civil rights movement in popular culture</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Estate_of_Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.,_Inc._v._CBS,_Inc." title="Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. v. CBS, Inc.">Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. v. CBS, Inc.</a></i></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/King_v._Trustees_of_Boston_Univ." title="King v. Trustees of Boston Univ.">King v. Trustees of Boston Univ.</a></i></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Related_topics26" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Related topics</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Memorials and <br />eponymous locations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Memorial" title="Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial">Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._National_Historical_Park" title="Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park">National Historical Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_King_Center_(Atlanta)" class="mw-redirect" title="The King Center (Atlanta)">King Center for Nonviolent Social Change</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dexter_Avenue_Baptist_Church" title="Dexter Avenue Baptist Church">Dexter Avenue Baptist Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Civil_Rights_Museum" title="National Civil Rights Museum">National Civil Rights Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bust_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr._(U.S._Capitol)" title="Bust of Martin Luther King Jr. (U.S. Capitol)">U.S. Capitol Rotunda sculpture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bust_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr._(Alston)" title="Bust of Martin Luther King Jr. (Alston)">Oval Office bust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homage_to_King" title="Homage to King"><i>Homage to King</i> sculpture, Atlanta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hope_Moving_Forward" title="Hope Moving Forward"><i>Hope Moving Forward</i> statue, Atlanta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Safe_House_Black_History_Museum" title="Safe House Black History Museum">Safe House Black History Museum</a></li> <li>Statues of Martin Luther King Jr. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr._(Atlanta)" title="Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Atlanta)">Atlanta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Embrace" title="The Embrace">Boston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr._(Denver)" title="Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Denver)">Denver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr._(Houston)" title="Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Houston)">Houston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._Memorial_(Jersey_City)" title="Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial (Jersey City)">Jersey City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr._(Milwaukee)" title="Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Milwaukee)">Milwaukee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr._(Mexico_City)" title="Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Mexico City)">Mexico City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr._(Newark)" title="Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Newark)">Newark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Statue_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr._(Pueblo,_Colorado)" title="Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Pueblo, Colorado)">Pueblo, Colorado</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yerba_Buena_Gardens#Public_art" title="Yerba Buena Gardens">Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, San Francisco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._Memorial_(Compton)" title="Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial (Compton)">Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial (Compton)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Landmark_for_Peace_Memorial" title="Landmark for Peace Memorial"><i>Landmark for Peace Memorial</i>, Indianapolis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Dream_(sculpture)" title="The Dream (sculpture)"><i>The Dream</i> sculpture, Portland, Oregon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kennedy%E2%80%93King_College" title="Kennedy–King College">Kennedy–King College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Memorial_Library" title="Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library">Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dr._Martin_Luther_King_Jr._Library" title="Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library">Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, San Jose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parc_Clichy-Batignolles_%E2%80%93_Martin_Luther_King" title="Parc Clichy-Batignolles – Martin Luther King">Paris park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memorials_to_Martin_Luther_King_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Memorials to Martin Luther King Jr.">Memorials to Martin Luther King Jr.</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">King County, Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_streets_named_after_Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="List of streets named after Martin 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