Poulsbo ( PAWLZ-boh) is a city on Liberty Bay in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. It is the smallest of the four cities in Kitsap County. The population was 9,200 at the 2010 census and an estimated 10,927 in 2018.

The Place was historically inhabited by the Suquamish people, many of whom moved to the Port Madison Indian Reservation after the signing of the Treaty of Point Elliott in 1855. Poulsbo was founded in the 1880s by Norwegian immigrant Jørgen Eliason, who was joined by supplementary Scandinavians who relocated from the Midwestern states. They were drawn here by the availability of land, by the area’s rich resources, and by a landscape same to their native home. The settlement was associated by boats to supplementary areas of the region, including the Puget Sound mosquito fleet, which was eventually usurped by highways built in the further on 20th century.

Modern-day downtown Poulsbo maintains a Scandinavian theme to honor its to the fore immigrant chronicles and is a popular regional tourist destination. One of its local products, Poulsbo Bread, is made locally at Sluys Bakery and used to be sold internationally. Many visitors reach by boat; there are three marinas near the town, and the town’s harbor is an excellent anchorage.

The Suquamish people inhabited the Place at the north subside of Liberty Bay for millennia and had several names for modern-day Poulsbo; one of those names, tcu-tcu-lats, means “place of the maples”. The Suquamish occupied villages on the Liberty Bay shoreline — among them, ho-CHEEB — for at least 5,000 years, hunted in local forests and floodplains, fished in bays and streams here, and harvested shellfish along the shoreline.

After the signing of the Treaty of Point Elliott in 1855, most Suquamish people here relocated to the Port Madison Indian Reservation, although the Suquamish Tribe reserved — and to this morning exercises — certain cultural and natural resource rights in its historical territory, including Poulsbo.^{[citation needed]}