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Selawik
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city in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alaska
- Borough
- Northwest Arctic
- Mayor
- Patrick Foster, Jr.
- State senator
- Donny Olson ( D )
- State rep
- Robyn Burke ( D )
- Total
- 2.94 sq mi (7.62 km )
- Land
- 2.33 sq mi (6.04 km )
- Water
- 0.61 sq mi (1.59 km )
- Elevation
- 0 ft (0 m)
- Density
- 347.0/sq mi (133.99/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-9 ( Alaska (AKST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-8 (AKDT)
- Fips code
- 02-68230
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Selawik
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Northwest Arctic Borough
- Population
- 809
- Area
- 10.642771
- Elevation
- 0
- Time zone
- Alaska Time Zone
- Body of water
- Selawik River
- Image
- Selawik, Alaska 2024.jpg
- Households
- 334
- Dialing code
- 99770
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- postal code
- 99770
- Commons category
- Selawik
- inception
- 1977-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 28.7579
- P8168
- Tipasa Province
- water area
- 3.060638
- per capita income
- 21459
- mean age
- 29.9
- native label
- Akuliġaq
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Encyclopedic overview
Selawik (/ˈsɛləwɪk/) (Iñupiaq: Siiḷ(i)vik or Akuliġaq) is a city in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 census, Selawik had a population of 809.
Selawik comes from siiḷivik, which means "place of sheefish" in Inupiaq.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Selawik” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.