Wales
Wales is a city of approximately 168 people in the Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States. It is the westernmost city on the North American mainland, although Adak, located on Adak Island, is the westernmost city in Alaska. Wales Airport serves Wales with flights on Bering Air and Ravn Alaska to Nome.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 152 residents
- Description: city in Alaska, USA
- Also known as: “Eidannoo”, “King-a-khi”, “Kingaghee”, “Kingegan”, “Kingegan Mission”, “Kingeghee”, “Kingigamute”, “Kinigin”, “Wales, AK”, and “Wales, Alaska”
- Postal code: 99783
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wales Airport.
Wales Airport
Aerodrome
Wales Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile northwest of the central business district of Wales, a city in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tin City.
Tin City
Hamlet
Tin City is an abandoned town except for a nearby minimally staffed radar station, in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is situated at the mouth of Cape Creek, on the Bering Sea coast, 5 miles southeast of Cape Prince of Wales on the Seward Peninsula. Tin City is situated 5 miles southeast of Wales.
Wales
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Nome, Alaska, United States, North America
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Latitude
65.60829° or 65° 36′ 30″ northLongitude
-168.09035° or 168° 5′ 25″ westPopulation
152Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)IATA airport code
WAAOpen location code
92QHJW55+8VOpenStreetMap ID
node 150919474OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Mari—“Wales” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Wales, Alaska”
- Albanian: “Wales”
- Arabic: “ويلز”
- Basque: “Kiŋigin”
- Basque: “Wales”
- Belarusian: “Уэйлс (Аляска)”
- Belarusian: “Уэйлс”
- Catalan: “Wales”
- Cebuano: “Wales”
- Central Kurdish: “وێڵز، ئالاسکا”
- Chechen: “Велс”
- Chinese: “Wales”
- Chinese: “威尔士”
- Czech: “Wales”
- Danish: “Wales”
- Dutch: “Wales”
- Finnish: “Wales”
- French: “Wales”
- German: “Wales”
- Gilaki: “ویلز”
- Haitian: “Wales”
- Hebrew: “ויילס”
- Inupiaq: “Kiŋigin”
- Irish: “Wales”
- Italian: “Wales”
- Japanese: “ウェールズ”
- Ladin: “Wales”
- Malagasy: “Wales, Alaska”
- Malagasy: “Wales”
- Malayalam: “വെയിത്സ്, അലാസ്ക”
- Malayalam: “വെയിത്സ്”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wales”
- Newari: “वेल्स, अलास्का”
- Newari: “वेल्स”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wales”
- Norwegian: “Wales”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Wales”
- Persian: “ولز، آلاسکا”
- Persian: “ولز، الاسکا”
- Persian: “ولز”
- Polish: “Wales”
- Portuguese: “Wales”
- Russian: “Уэйлс”
- Russian: “Уэльс”
- Serbian: “Вејлс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wales, Alaska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wales”
- Sicilian: “Wales”
- Slovak: “Wales”
- South Azerbaijani: “ولز، آلاسکا”
- South Azerbaijani: “ولز”
- Spanish: “Gales”
- Spanish: “Wales”
- Swedish: “Wales”
- Talysh: “Vejls”
- Tatar: “Велс”
- Turkish: “Wales, Alaska”
- Turkish: “Wales”
- Ukrainian: “Велс”
- Uzbek: “Wales”
- Volapük: “Wales”
- Welsh: “Wales, Alaska”
- Welsh: “Wales”
- Western Mari: “Уэльс”
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