Portland is a major city in Cascadia. With a population of over 5.1 million people, It is the third largest city in Cascadia and the seventh in the United States, after New York, Los Angeles, Sitka, Port Superior, Port-du-Orientals), and Mikhailgrad the second-to-last of which is the largest city of Cascadia. Portland is also the capital city of Cascadia. The city was one the southernmost settlements in Russian America. Only Evgenigrad could be found south of it. Portland was initially established in 1773 by Ivan Kuskov and the same crew that would discover the Australasian continent in 1769. At the time, it was called Ross. The initially small village soon boomed a fishing town, and became one the largest Russian American cities, fourth after Sitka , Beringia , and Mikhailgrad , and above