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Selawik

Selawik is a city in , United States. At the 2010 census the population was 829, up from 772 in 2000. Selawik comes from siiḷivik, which means "place of sheefish" in Inupiaq.
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  • Type: Village with 809 residents
  • Description: city in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, United States
  • Also known as: “Akuligaq”, “Chilivik”, “Seelawik Mutes”, “Selawigamute”, “Selawik, Alaska”, “Siilivik”, and “Sulawig-meuts”
  • Postal code: 99770

Places of Interest

Highlights include Selawik Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Sweehe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a state-owned public-use located in Selawik, a city in the of the U.S. state of .

Selawik

Latitude
66.6024° or 66° 36′ 9″ north
Longitude
-160.0113° or 160° 0′ 41″ west
Population
809
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
IATA airport code
WLK
United Nations Location Code
US WLK
Open location code
92RXJX2Q+XF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150917244
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5873663
Wiki­data ID
Q79395
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Selawik” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سيلاويك”
  • Basque: “Akuliġaq”
  • Basque: “Selawik”
  • Basque: “Siiḷivik”
  • Catalan: “Selawik”
  • Cebuano: “Selawik”
  • Central Kurdish: “سێڵاویک، ئالاسکا”
  • Chechen: “Селавик”
  • Chinese: “Selawik”
  • Chinese: “塞拉威克”
  • Czech: “Selawik”
  • Danish: “Selawik”
  • Dutch: “Selawik”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سيلاويك”
  • French: “Selawik”
  • German: “Selawik”
  • Gilaki: “سلاویک”
  • Haitian: “Selawik”
  • Inupiaq: “Siiḷivik”
  • Inupiaq: “Siilvik”
  • Irish: “Selawik”
  • Italian: “Selawik”
  • Ladin: “Selawik”
  • Malagasy: “Selawik, Alaska”
  • Malagasy: “Selawik”
  • Malayalam: “സെലാവിക്, അലാസ്ക”
  • Malayalam: “സെലാവിക്”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Selawik”
  • Newari: “सेलाविक (अलास्का)”
  • Newari: “सेलाविक, अलास्का”
  • Newari: “सेलाविक”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Selawik”
  • Norwegian: “Selawik”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Selawik”
  • Persian: “سلاویک، آلاسکا”
  • Persian: “سلاویک، الاسکا”
  • Persian: “سلاویک”
  • Polish: “Selawik”
  • Portuguese: “Selawik”
  • Russian: “Селавик”
  • Serbian: “Селавик”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Selawik, Alaska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Selawik”
  • Slovak: “Selawik”
  • Spanish: “Selawik”
  • Talysh: “Selavik”
  • Tatar: “Селавик”
  • Turkish: “Selawik, Alaska”
  • Turkish: “Selawik”
  • Ukrainian: “Селавік”
  • Uzbek: “Selawik”
  • Volapük: “Selawik”
  • Western Mari: “Селавик”

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