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Egegik Village
Egegik ( esu, Igyagiiq; Sugpiaq language, Sugpiaq: Igya'iq, Igyagiq) is a city in Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city is 39, down from 109 in 2010. It has been home to cannery operations. If the city's population somehow exploded in the decades to come, it will potentially become the new borough seat of Lake and Peninsula Borough replacing King Salmon. Geography Egegik is at (58.219292, -157.357989) on the eastern shores of both Bristol Bay and, more locally, of Egegik Bay. The village is on a high bluff along the southern shore of the Egegik River at the upper extent of Egegik Bay. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of , of which, is land and (75.54%) is water. Demographics Egegik first appeared on the 1880 U.S. Census as the unincorporated Inuit village of Igagik. It appeared again under that name in 1890 and 1900. It returned again in 1920 as E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City (Alaska)
Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., it borders the Canadian province of British Columbia and the Yukon territory to the east; it also shares a maritime border with the Russian Federation's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug to the west, just across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas of the Arctic Ocean, while the Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. Alaska is by far the largest U.S. state by area, comprising more total area than the next three largest states (Texas, California, and Montana) combined. It represents the seventh-largest subnational division in the world. It is the third-least populous and the most sparsely populated state, but by far the continent's most populous territory located mostly north of the 60th parallel, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
