Sitka, Alaska
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Sitka Sheet'ká |
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| City and Borough of Sitka | |
View toward Sitka from the Pacific Ocean. Sitka is the only town in Southeast Alaska that faces the Gulf of Alaska head-on.
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| Coordinates: 57°3′5.62″N 135°20′19.11″W / 57.0515611°N 135.3386417°WCoordinates: 57°3′5.62″N 135°20′19.11″W / 57.0515611°N 135.3386417°W | |
| Country |
 United States
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| State |
 Alaska
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| Colonized | 1799, 1804 |
| Incorporated | November 5, 1913 (city) September 24, 1963 (borough) December 2, 1971 (unified municipality) |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Mim McConnell |
| • State senator | Bert Stedman (R) |
| • State rep. | Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins (D) |
| Area | |
| • City and borough | 12,460 km2 (4,811 sq mi) |
| • Land | 7,400 km2 (2,870 sq mi) |
| • Water | 5,030 km2 (1,941 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 5 km2 (2 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 8 m (26 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • City and borough | 8,881 ranked 4th |
| • Density | 1.2/km2 (3.1/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 6,982 |
| Time zone | Alaska (UTC-9) |
| • Summer (DST) | Alaska (UTC-8) |
| ZIP | 99835 |
| Area code | 907 |
| FIPS code | 02-70540 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1414736 |
| Website | www |
The City and Borough of Sitka (Tlingit: Sheetʼká), formerly New Arkhangelsk, or New Archangel under Russian rule (Russian: Ново-Архангельск or Новоaрхангельск, t Novoarkhangelsk), is a unified city-borough located on Baranof Island and the southern half of Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean (part of the Alaska Panhandle), in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2010 census, the population was 8,881. In terms of land area, it is the largest city-borough in the U.S., with a land area of 2,870.3 square miles (7,434 square kilometres) and a total area (including water area) of 4,811.4 square miles (12,461 square kilometres). Urban Sitka, the part that is usually thought of as the "city" of Sitka, is on the west side of Baranof Island.
The current name Sitka (derived from Sheet’ká, a contraction of the Tlingit Shee At'iká) means "People on the Outside of Baranof Island", whose Tlingit name is Sheet’-ká X'áat'l (here contracted to Shee).
Sitka's location was originally settled by the Tlingit people over 10,000 years ago.
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