STATUS: LEGAL
Legal for adults and qualifying minors.
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
Washington is one of the wealthiest and most socially liberal states in the country. The state consistently ranks among the best for life expectancy and low unemployment. Along with Colorado, Washington was one of the first to legalize medicinal and recreational cannabis, was among the first thirty-six states to legalize same-sex marriage, doing so in 2012, and was one of only four U.S. states to have been providing legal abortions on request before the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade loosened abortion laws nationwide.
Similarly, Washington voters approved a 2008 referendum on legalization of physician-assisted suicide, and is currently one of only five states, along with Oregon, California, Colorado and Vermont, as well as the District of Columbia to have legalized the practice. The state is also one of eight in the country to have criminalized the sale, possession and transfer of bump stocks, with California, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Maryland, and Massachusetts also having banned these devices.
Counties of Washington
Rank | County | Population |
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1 | King County | 2,252,782 |
2 | Pierce County | 904,980 |
3 | Snohomish County | 822,083 |
4 | Spokane County | 522,798 |
5 | Clark County | 488,241 |
6 | Thurston County | 290,536 |
7 | Kitsap County | 271,473 |
8 | Yakima County | 250,873 |
9 | Whatcom County | 229,247 |
10 | Benton County | 204,390 |
11 | Skagit County | 129,205 |
12 | Cowlitz County | 110,593 |
13 | Grant County | 97,733 |
14 | Franklin County | 95,222 |
15 | Island County | 85,141 |
16 | Lewis County | 80,707 |
17 | Clallam County | 77,331 |
18 | Chelan County | 77,200 |
19 | Grays Harbor County | 75,061 |
20 | Mason County | 66,768 |
21 | Walla Walla County | 60,760 |
22 | Whitman County | 50,104 |
23 | Kittitas County | 47,935 |
24 | Stevens County | 45,723 |
25 | Douglas County | 43,429 |
26 | Okanogan County | 42,243 |
27 | Jefferson County | 32,221 |
28 | Asotin County | 22,582 |
29 | Pacific County | 22,471 |
30 | Klickitat County | 22,425 |
31 | Adams County | 19,983 |
32 | San Juan County | 17,582 |
33 | Pend Oreille County | 13,724 |
34 | Skamania County | 12,083 |
35 | Lincoln County | 10,939 |
36 | Ferry County | 7,627 |
37 | Wahkiakum County | 4,488 |
38 | Columbia County | 3,985 |
39 | Garfield County | 2,225 |
United States Census Bureau. B01001 SEX BY AGE, 2018 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey Office. Web. 19 December 2019. http://www.census.gov/.
United States Census Bureau. Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2019. U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division. Web. May 2020. http://www.census.gov/.