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The seven hills of Seattle is an unofficial designation of several hills that historians claim the city of Seattle was built on and around. The name comes from the similar tradition in several other cities, most notably Rome and Constantinople.
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The seven hills
There is no firm consensus on precisely which hills constitute the seven hills of Seattle. Walt Crowley considered the main candidates to be:
The hills above were associated with seven boulders in the City of Seattle's Seven Hills Park.
Other hills sometimes said to be among the "seven hills of Seattle" include:
Geology
Seattle's topography is due largely to Pleistocene ice age glaciation. Nearly all of the city's seven hills are characterized as drumlins (Beacon Hill, First Hill, Capitol Hill, Queen Anne Hill, Mount Baker) or drift uplands (Magnolia, West Seattle).
Seattle-Bergen sister city "seven hills" walk
The Seattle-Bergen Sister City Association (Sister Cities International) sponsors an annual "Seven Hills of Seattle" walk. Seattle's sister city, Bergen, Norway, is known as the City of Seven Mountains.