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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alaska
- Borough
- Northwest Arctic
- Incorporated
- June 23, 1969
- Mayor
- Austin Swan, Sr.
- State senator
- Donny Olson ( D )
- State rep
- Robyn Burke ( D )
- Total
- 4.16 sq mi (10.78 km )
- Land
- 1.63 sq mi (4.23 km )
- Water
- 2.53 sq mi (6.55 km )
- Elevation
- 13 ft (4 m)
- Density
- 272.2/sq mi (105.08/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-9 ( Alaska (AKST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-8 (AKDT)
- Fips code
- 02-39960
- Gnis feature id
- 1413348 , 2419411
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Kivalina
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Northwest Arctic Borough
- Population
- 444
- Area
- 6.384782
- Elevation
- 4
- Time zone
- Alaska Time Zone
- Image
- Kivalina 2.jpg
- Households
- 158
- Dialing code
- 907
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- Commons category
- Kivalina, Alaska
- postal code
- 99750
- inception
- 1969-06-23
- water as percent of area
- 62.237
- P8168
- Idzyasyu
- water area
- 6.384782
- per capita income
- 39980
- mean age
- 37.0
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Climate change
- native label
- Kivaliñiq
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Encyclopedic overview
Kivalina (kiv-uh-LEE-nuh) (Inupiaq: Kivalliñiq) is a city and village in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 census, Kivalina had a population of 444.
The island on which the village lies is threatened by rising sea levels and coastal erosion caused by climate change. As of 2013, it is predicted that the island will be inundated by 2025. In addition to well-publicized impacts of climate change, the Village of Kivalina has been a party in several environmentally related court cases.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kivalina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.