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Washington State: a small taste

The Evergreen State in figures

The City of Seattle was founded in 1869. Located a few miles from the Canadian border, is surrounded by lakes and mountains, a wild environment that offers spectacular scenery and changing. Despite its relative youth, the city of Seattle has managed to grow up to become today a major cultural and commercial hub of the United States. Olympia is the capital of the State of Washington, but Seattle is the economic center of the entire Northwest region of the United States. The presence of major companies such as Microsoft, Boeing, Amazon, or Starbucks demonstrates its full strength. Washington State is 13 th most populous state of United States, with nearly 6.5 million.

A thriving economy

Seattle is booming especially in areas such as technology information with Microsoft, Amazon, and many start-up dynamics that are established in the region as Alerts.com. Thus, more than 3000 companies located around Seattle employ over 190,000 people. Aviation is also a key sector of the economy of Washington. Boeing and Safran have especially chosen to locate their factories. Not to mention the port of Seattle is one of the largest on the Pacific coast of the United States.

But Washington State is primarily a center for advanced research in the fields of health and biotechnology. The University of Washington is without a doubt, with more than 1 billion annual research budget, the center of all research activity of the state. In addition, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , with over 30 billion in assets, is a weight support for research in the region.

The Climate

Washington State can not escape his reputation as a rainy state. Thus he fell on average 90 cm of rain per year in Seattle. This is significantly higher than San Francisco 50 cm, but it remains below Washington DC and New York respectively 99 cm and 102 cm of rain per year. Similarly, if the maximum temperature that can be observed in summer is about 25 ˚ C, it falls a couple of weeks per year below the threshold of 0 ˚ C.

French presence

In 2008, there were 2,500 French nationals in Washington State. This is then registered in the Consulate General of France in San Francisco, but their actual number is probably about three times higher.

Chamber of Commerce Franco-American Pacific Northwest, based in Seattle since 1987, has around fifty subsidiaries of French companies. French companies setting up in Washington state in very different sectors, but the vast majority of key high-tech and aerospace, Boeing being the largest employer in this state.

Big brands such as Cartier, Louis Vuitton and Roche Bobois have recently opened stores in Seattle. There are also a multitude of "SME" directed by French nationals (bakery, import-export, home ... see our list of top 32 French restaurants).

Regarding French newspapers or periodicals of Seattle, you can find at certain retailers (see Pike Place Market) French newspapers like Le Monde, Le Point Release, the team (approximately 10 days after its publication in France), Le Canard Enchaine, Le Nouvel Observateur, and sometimes the press men and women.

It is possible to capture the French channel TV5 www.TV5.org , cable or satellite. The Consular Agency of France Seattle is incorporated into the district of Consulate General in San Francisco. 's Web site ( www.consulfrance-sanfrancisco.org ) contains all necessary information concerning your administrative and information on political and social life in France. The Consular Agency of France in Seattle main mission is to inform, assist and guide them French nationals. It is therefore recommended to contact us at (206) 256-6184.