Kivalina
Kivalina is a city and village in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 census, Kivalina had a population of 444. The island on which the village lies is threatened by rising sea levels and coastal erosion caused by climate change.
- Type: Village with 393 residents
- Description: Alaska town facing tundra erosion
- Also known as: “Kebuleek”, “Kebulik”, “Kevuleek”, “Kevulik”, “Kiv-a-lin-yah”, “Kivalina, Alaska”, “Kivalinagmiut”, “Kivalinagmouit”, “Kivalinak”, “Kivaliniq”, “Kivaliñiq”, “Kivalinyah”, “Kiveleena”, “Kivelow”, “Kivilenya”, “Kivoualinagmut”, “Kivualinagmut”, “Kivualinak”, “Kuveleek”, and “किभालिना (अलास्का)”
- Historically known as: “Kivalena”
- Postal code: 99750
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kivalina Airport.
Kivalina Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Kivalina
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Northwest Arctic, Alaska, United States, North America
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Latitude
67.72788° or 67° 43′ 40″ north
Longitude
-164.54072° or 164° 32′ 27″ west
Population
393
Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)
IATA airport code
KVL
UN/LOCODE
US KVL
Open location code
92VQPFH5+5P
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Kivalina” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيفالينا”
- Basque: “Kivalina”
- Catalan: “Kivalina”
- Cebuano: “Kivalina”
- Central Kurdish: “کیڤالینا، ئالاسکا”
- Chamorro: “Kivalina”
- Chechen: “Кивалина”
- Chinese: “基瓦利纳”
- Czech: “Kivalina”
- Danish: “Kivalina”
- Dutch: “Kivalina”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كيفالينا”
- French: “Kivalina”
- German: “Kivalina”
- Gilaki: “کیوالینا”
- Haitian: “Kivalina”
- Inupiaq: “Kivalliñiq”
- Irish: “Kivalina”
- Italian: “Kivalina”
- Japanese: “キバリーナ”
- Ladin: “Kivalina”
- Malagasy: “Kivalina, Alaska”
- Malagasy: “Kivalina”
- Malayalam: “കിവാലിന, അലാസ്ക”
- Malayalam: “കിവാലിന”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kivalina”
- Newari: “किभालिना, अलास्का”
- Newari: “किभालिना”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kivalina”
- Norwegian: “Kivalina”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kivalina”
- Persian: “کیوالینا، آلاسکا”
- Persian: “کیوالینا”
- Polish: “Kivalina”
- Portuguese: “Kivalina”
- Romanian: “Kivalina, Alaska”
- Romanian: “Kivalina”
- Russian: “Кивалина”
- Scots: “Kivalina”
- Serbian: “Кивалина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kivalina, Alaska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kivalina”
- Slovak: “Kivalina”
- South Azerbaijani: “کیوالینا، آلاسکا”
- South Azerbaijani: “کیوالینا”
- Spanish: “Kivalina”
- Swedish: “Kivalina”
- Talysh: “Kivalina”
- Tamil: “கிவலீனா”
- Tatar: “Кивалина”
- Turkish: “Kivalina, Alaska”
- Turkish: “Kivalina”
- Ukrainian: “Кивалина”
- Urdu: “کیوالینا، الاسکا”
- Uzbek: “Kivalina”
- Volapük: “Kivalina”
- Western Mari: “Кивалина”
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