Seattle: Streets, Squares and Neighbourhoods

Bellevue Square is its suburban neighbor on the east side of Lake Washington, which became the dominant retail center in the Pacific Northwest. Most streets in Seattle run either north or west. However, this orientation does not prevail in one of the oldest and densest parts of the town, bounded by Elliott Bay to the west and Denny Way to the north. The encompassing Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metropolitan statistical area is the 15th largest in the United States, and the largest in the Pacific Northwest.