Puget Sound region

Puget Sound region
Puget Sound region
Country	United States
State	Washington
Core cities	Seattle ; Tacoma ; Bellevue ; Everett
Highest elevation ; Mount Rainier	14,411 ft (4,392 m)
Lowest elevation ; Sea level	0 ft (0 m)
Time zone	UTC−08:00 (Pacific)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−07:00 (PDT)
Area codes	206, 253, 360, 425, 564

The Puget Sound region is a coastal area of the Pacific Northwest in the U.S. state of Washington, including Puget Sound, the Puget Sound lowlands, and the surrounding region roughly west of the Cascade Range and east of the Olympic Mountains. It is characterized by a complex array of saltwater bays, islands, and peninsulas carved out by prehistoric glaciers.

Poet Robert Sund called the Puget Sound region "Ish River country", owing to its numerous rivers with names ending in "ish", such as the Duwamish, Samish, Sammamish, Skokomish, Skykomish, Snohomish, and the Stillaguamish.^[1] The ish ending is from Salishan languages and means "people of".^[2]

^ Ingle, Schuyler (November 24, 1991). "The Time of Food: Pacific Northwest Bounty". Los Angeles Times.
^ Denham, Kristen E.; Lobeck, Anne C. (2011). "Chapter 5". Linguistics for Everyone. Cengage. p. 145. ISBN 9781111344382.

[1] Ingle, Schuyler (November 24, 1991). "The Time of Food: Pacific Northwest Bounty". Los Angeles Times.

[2] Denham, Kristen E.; Lobeck, Anne C. (2011). "Chapter 5". Linguistics for Everyone. Cengage. p. 145. ISBN 9781111344382.

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