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Kipnuk

Kipnuk is a census-designated place in , United States. At the 2010 census the population was 639, down from 644 in 2000. Kipnuk consists mostly of Yup'ik speaking Native Alaskans; the name means a "bend" referring to the bend in the Kugkaktlik River where it is situated.
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  • Type: Hamlet with 639 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Bethel Census Area, Alaska, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Kipnuk, Alaska” and “Qipneq”
  • Postal code: 99614

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kipnuk Airport.

Aerodrome
is a state-owned public-use serving Kipnuk, in the of the U.S. state of . Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, this airport is assigned IIK by the FAA and KPN by the IATA.

Kipnuk

Latitude
59.93634° or 59° 56′ 11″ north
Longitude
-164.04093° or 164° 2′ 27″ west
Population
639
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
IATA airport code
KPN
United Nations Location Code
US KPN
Open location code
92FQWXP5+GJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150921471
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
5866390
Wiki­data ID
Q2172124
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Satellite Map

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

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Kipnuk” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كيبنوك”
  • Catalan: “Kipnuk”
  • Cebuano: “Kipnuk”
  • Chechen: “Кипнак”
  • Chinese: “Kipnuk”
  • Chinese: “基普努克”
  • Dutch: “Kipnuk”
  • French: “Kipnuk”
  • German: “Kipnuk”
  • Gilaki: “کیپناک”
  • Hindi: “कीपनुक”
  • Irish: “Kipnuk”
  • Italian: “Kipnuk”
  • Ladin: “Kipnuk”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kipnuk”
  • Newari: “किप्नुक (अलास्का)”
  • Newari: “किप्नुक, अलास्का”
  • Newari: “किप्नुक”
  • Persian: “کیپنوک، آلاسکا”
  • Persian: “کیپنوک”
  • Polish: “Kipnuk”
  • Portuguese: “Kipnuk”
  • Russian: “Кипнук”
  • Serbian: “Кипнак”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kipnuk, Alaska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kipnuk”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیپنوک، آلاسکا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیپنوک”
  • Spanish: “Kipnuk”
  • Tatar: “Кипнак”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіпнак”
  • Volapük: “Kipnuk”
  • Western Mari: “Кипнук”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kipnuk”. Photo: Janelle Carl, CC BY 2.0.