Kake
Kake is a first-class city in Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area, Alaska, United States. The population was 557 at the 2010 census. The name comes from the Tlingit word Ḵéix̱ʼ or Ḵéex̱ʼ, which is derived from ḵée 'dawn, daylight' and x̱ʼé 'mouth', i.e.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Kake Seaplane Base
Aerodrome
Kake Seaplane Base is a public-use seaplane base located in Kake, a city in the Petersburg Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. Scheduled airline passenger service is subsidized by the U.S.
Kake Airport
Aerodrome
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Kake Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile southeast of the central business district of Kake, a city in the Petersburg Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. Kake Airport is situated 1½ miles southeast of Kake.
Kake Cannery
Building
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The Kake Cannery 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 Southeast Alaska, an area historically rich in salmon.
Kake
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Petersburg Borough, Alaska, United States, North America
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Latitude
56.97583° or 56° 58′ 33″ northLongitude
-133.94722° or 133° 56′ 50″ westPopulation
543Elevation
62 feet (19 metres)IATA airport code
KAEUnited Nations Location Code
US KAEOpen location code
9488X3G3+84OpenStreetMap ID
node 150916663OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
5554194Wikidata ID
Q79533
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Uzbek: “Kake”
- Volapük: “Kake”
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