Tacoma

Puget Sound city

Tacoma is a city in Washington State, south of Seattle on Puget Sound.

It serves as a major Pacific Northwest port and industrial center.

The name also designates a popular Toyota pickup truck model: He bought a used Tacoma for hauling equipment.

Mount Tacoma is an older name for Mount Rainier.

city

Seattle

Pacific Northwest metropolis

Mount Rainier · port · downtown · Fife · Lakewood · waterfront · Narrows · tide flats · museum district · brewery

truck

Toyota

Japanese car company

off-road · tundra · midsize · tailgate · bed liner · towing · camping · hauling · trailering · reliability

indigenous

tribe

Social group sharing ancestry

salmon · canoe · cedar · longhouse · potlatch · treaty · ancestral · territorial · indigenous · Pacific Northwest

bridge

Narrows

Constricted water passage name

wind · resonance · engineering · disaster · span · cables · reconstruction · toll · aerodynamics · failure

Categories
Opposites
puget sound regional identity

TacomaSeattle

Pacific Northwest metropolis

Bellevue · Olympia · Everett

WEST COAST vs EAST COAST INDUSTRIAL PORT CITIES

TacomaNewark

Largest city in Jersey

Baltimore · Philadelphia · Boston

industrial vs. non-industrial cities

TacomaCarmel-by-the-Sea

Tiny Monterey Peninsula village

Santa Barbara · Sedona

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Top 500,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G