Wales
Wales is a city in the Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 census, Wales had a population of 168. 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.- Type: Village with 152 residents
- Description: city in Alaska, USA
- Also known as: “Eidannoo”, “Gales”, “King-a-khi”, “Kingaghee”, “Kingegan”, “Kingegan Mission”, “Kingeghee”, “Kingigamute”, “Kinigin”, “Wales, AK”, “Wales, Alaska”, and “ولز، الاسکا”
- Postal code: 99783
Places of Interest
Highlights: Wales Airport.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tin City.
Tin City
Hamlet
Tin City is an abandoned town except for a nearby… 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″ north
Longitude
-168.09035° or 168° 5′ 25″ west
Population
152
Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)
IATA airport code
WAA
Open location code
92QHJW55+8V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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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: “Wales”
- Belarusian: “Уэйлс (Аляска)”
- Belarusian: “Уэйлс”
- Catalan: “Wales”
- Cebuano: “Wales”
- Central Kurdish: “وێڵز، ئالاسکا”
- Chechen: “Велс”
- 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”
- Polish: “Wales”
- Portuguese: “Wales”
- Russian: “Уэйлс”
- Serbian: “Вејлс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wales, Alaska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wales”
- Sicilian: “Wales”
- Slovak: “Wales”
- South Azerbaijani: “ولز، آلاسکا”
- South Azerbaijani: “ولز”
- Spanish: “Wales”
- Swedish: “Wales”
- Talysh: “Vejls”
- Tatar: “Велс”
- Turkish: “Wales, Alaska”
- Turkish: “Wales”
- Ukrainian: “Велс”
- Urdu: “ویلز، الاسکا”
- Uzbek: “Wales”
- Volapük: “Wales”
- Welsh: “Wales, Alaska”
- Welsh: “Wales”
- Western Mari: “Уэльс”
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