Washington
Became a state: November 11, 1889 (42nd state)
Area: 71,342sq mi (ranked 18th in size)
Population: 5,894,121 (ranked 14th in population)
Capital: Olympia
Largest City: Seattle (population 582,174)
Bordering States: Idaho, Oregon
Origin of state name: The state of Washington was named after George Washington, our first President.
State Nickname: The Evergreen State
State Bird: Goldfinch
State Flower: Coast Rhododendrum
State Tree: Western Hemlock
State Gemstone: Petrified Wood
Trivia: Microsoft Corporation is a public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system (OS) market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of OSs. Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics market with Zune and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated four billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees.
Abbreviation: WA
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