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  2. List of boroughs and census areas in Alaska - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. state of Alaska is divided into 19 organized boroughs and 11 census areas in the unorganized borough.Alaska, and the states of Connecticut and Louisiana are the only states that do not call their first-order administrative subdivisions counties (Connecticut uses Planning Regions and Louisiana uses parishes instead). [1]

  3. List of Alaska placenames of Native American origin - Wikipedia

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    Hoonah – from the Tlingit phrase xunaa, meaning "leeward of the north wind". Klawock – from the Tlingit phrase ɬawa:k, the name given to a subgroup of the Tlingit tribe. Kotlik – from the Yup'ik phrase qerrulliik, whose English translation is unclear. Kwethluk – from the Yup'ik phrase kuiggluk, meaning "unnatural river".

  4. List of Alaska borough and census area name etymologies

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  5. Curious Alaska: Why do we have boroughs instead of counties?

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  6. Borough (United States) - Wikipedia

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    In Michigan, the term borough only applied to Mackinac Island from February 2, 1817, to March 25, 1847. [2] [3] The Borough government was established by William Henry Puthuff after the island was proclaimed to be a U.S. territory in the War of 1812. The borough government was replaced by a village government in 1847.

  7. List of cities in Alaska - Wikipedia

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    Map of the United States with Alaska highlighted. Alaska is a state of the United States in the northwest extremity of the North American continent. According to the 2020 United States Census, Alaska is the 3rd least populous state with 733,391 inhabitants [1] but is the largest by land area spanning 570,640.95 square miles (1,477,953.3 km 2). [2]

  8. Administrative divisions of Alaska - Wikipedia

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    Section 3 of Article X of the Constitution of Alaska divides the state, at the first level, into organized and unorganized boroughs. [1] These boroughs are functionally equivalent to counties found in most other states. Areas of Alaska which are not within the boundaries of an organized borough are, by default, part of a single unorganized ...

  9. List of census-designated places in Alaska - Wikipedia

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    Map of the United States with Alaska highlighted. Alaska is a state situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent. According to the 2010 United States Census, Alaska is the 3rd least populous state with 733,391 inhabitants but is the largest by land area spanning 665,384.04 square miles (1,723,336.8 km 2) of land.