Tri-Cities (Washington)

Tri -Cities is one consisting of the three neighboring towns of Kennewick, Richland and Pasco metropolitan region in the southeast of the U.S. state of Washington.

Its metropolitan area with a total of 253 340 inhabitants, situated at the confluence of the Columbia River, Snake River and Yakima River. Pasco is the county seat ( county seat ) of Franklin County. The other two cities are part of Benton County. The region has one based in Pasco airport, the Tri -Cities Airport. The largest employer in the region since the 1940s, the Department of Energy Hanford Site imputed, a former plutonium production that now - and for a long time - mainly preoccupied with environmental remediation. Of economic importance are further agriculture, livestock and viticulture.

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