Medina () is a mostly residential city in Eastside, King County, Washington, United States. The city is on a peninsula in Lake Washington, on the opposite shore from Seattle, bordered by Clyde Hill and Hunts Point to the east and water on all other sides. The city’s population was 2,969 at the 2010 census. Billionaire Bill Gates, along in the way of being of a number of Microsoft executives, or other links of Gates, have homes in Medina.

The eastern shore of Lake Washington with Meydenbauer Bay and Evergreen Point was a sparsely-populated Place that was cleared for its timber in the 1870s. Seattle businessman Thomas Dabney conventional a affirmation on the south side of modern-day Medina in 1886, becoming the area’s first steadfast white settler. Dabney built a ferry waterfront in 1890, naming it Dabney’s Landing, while the surrounding Place was turned into berry farms and fruit orchards. Other settlers arrived at Dabney’s Landing, which was briefly named Flordeline by its founder until objections were raised by a organization of women who proposed the Arabic name “Medina” in 1891. After a series of debates and sign-switching incidents, Medina won and was adopted as the post of the town.

Medina was platted in 1914 and officially incorporated on August 19, 1955. The town’s first mansions were built in the 1920s by rich Seattle businessmen, encouraged by the arrival of speak to ferry service, and led to the nickname of Washington’s “Gold Coast”. The area’s farmers, mostly of Japanese descent, were evicted during the 1940s internment and their farms were turned more than for redevelopment.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total Place of 4.79 square miles (12.41 km²), of which, 1.44 square miles (3.73 km²) is house and 3.35 square miles (8.68 km²) is water.

Medina is linked to Seattle, on the western shore of Lake Washington, by State Route 520 upon the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, the longest lost bridge in the world.