Kake

Kake is a first-class city in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, , United States. As of the 2020 census, Kake had a population of 543. The name comes from the Tlingit word Ḵéix̱ʼ or Ḵéex̱ʼ, which is derived from ḵée 'dawn, daylight' and x̱ʼé 'mouth', i.e.
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  • Type: Village with 543 residents
  • Description: city in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska, United States
  • Also known as: “Kake, Alaska”, “Keex”, “Kekou”, “Keku”, “Keq”, “Klukwan”, “S’ikanakhse’ni”, and “S’ikanaxsa’ni”
  • Postal code: 99830

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kake Seaplane Base and Kake Airport.

Aerodrome
is a public-use seaplane base located in Kake, a city in the of the U.S. state of . Scheduled airline passenger service is subsidized by the U.S.

Aerodrome
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is a state-owned public-use located one nautical mile southeast of the central business district of Kake, a city in the of the U.S. state of . is situated 1½ miles southeast of Kake.

Building
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The is a historic fish processing facility near Kake, Alaska. Operated by a variety of companies between 1912 and 1977, the cannery was one of many which operated in , an area historically rich in salmon.

Kake

Latitude
56.97583° or 56° 58′ 33″ north
Longitude
-133.94722° or 133° 56′ 50″ west
Population
543
Elevation
62 feet (19 metres)
IATA airport code
KAE
United Nations Location Code
US KAE
Open location code
9488X3G3+84
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150916663
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5554194
Wiki­data ID
Q79533
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Satellite Map

Discover Kake from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Volapük—“Kake” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kake, Alaska”
  • Albanian: “Kake”
  • Arabic: “كاكي”
  • Basque: “Kake”
  • Basque: “Ḵéex̱ʼ”
  • Catalan: “Kake”
  • Cebuano: “Kake”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەیک، ئالاسکا”
  • Chechen: “Каке”
  • Chinese: “Kake”
  • Chinese: “卡克”
  • Czech: “Kake”
  • Danish: “Kake”
  • Dutch: “Kake”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاكى”
  • Finnish: “Kake”
  • French: “Kake”
  • German: “Kake”
  • Gilaki: “کیک”
  • Haitian: “Kake”
  • Irish: “Kake”
  • Italian: “Kake”
  • Ladin: “Kake”
  • Macedonian: “Кејк”
  • Malagasy: “Kake, Alaska”
  • Malagasy: “Kake”
  • Malayalam: “കാകി, അലാസ്ക”
  • Malayalam: “കാകി”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kake”
  • Newari: “काके (अलास्का)”
  • Newari: “काके, अलास्का”
  • Newari: “काके”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kake”
  • Norwegian: “Kake”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kake”
  • Persian: “کاکی، آلاسکا”
  • Persian: “کاکی، الاسکا”
  • Persian: “کاکی”
  • Polish: “Kake”
  • Portuguese: “Kake”
  • Russian: “Кейк”
  • Serbian: “Кејк”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kake, Alaska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kake”
  • Slovak: “Kake”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کئیک، آلاسکا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کئیک”
  • Spanish: “Kake”
  • Tatar: “Каке”
  • Ukrainian: “Каке”
  • Urdu: “کیک، الاسکا”
  • Uzbek: “Kake”
  • Volapük: “Kake”

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