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Anchorage

Anchorage is the largest city in , in the region. Anchorage is a cosmopolitan port city with a population of 291 247. It is a consolidated city-borough referred to as a municipality.
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  • Type: City with 291,000 residents
  • Description: consolidated city-borough in Alaska, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Alaska City”, “Anchorage, Alaska”, “Angits”, “Brownville”, “Dgheyay Kaq‘”, “Municipality of Anchorage”, “Port Woodrow”, “Qatuk’e’usht”, “Ship Creek”, “Tan”, “The City of Lights and Flowers”, “Ves Dnaghildeqt”, and “Woodrow”
  • Postal codes: 99501-99504, 99507-99511, 99513-99524, 99599, and 99695
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Holy Family Old Cathedral and Anchorage Museum.

Church
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, located in the commercial downtown section of Anchorage, Alaska in United States of America, was the cathedral and mother church of former Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Anchorage from the erection of that archdiocese 1966 to its canonical suppression in 2020.

Museum
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The is a large art, history, ethnography, ecology and science museum located in a modern building in the heart of Anchorage, Alaska. It is dedicated to studying and exploring the land, peoples, art and history of .

Convention center
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The Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center is a convention center in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, United States. The $111 million, 200,000-square-foot facility opened in September 2008.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Spenard.

Hamlet
is a neighborhood in the Municipality of Anchorage, , and was historically a separate city from Anchorage. The road that bears its name, Road, begins at at its southern end, and continues north toward downtown before ending at Westchester Lagoon, where it turns and becomes part of I Street.

Anchorage

Latitude
61.2163° or 61° 12′ 59″ north
Longitude
-149.8949° or 149° 53′ 42″ west
Population
291,000
Elevation
102 feet (31 metres)
IATA airport code
ANC
United Nations Location Code
US ANC
Open location code
93HG6484+G3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150921144
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5879400
Wiki­data ID
Q39450
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Anchorage” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Anchorage”
  • Albanian: “Anchorage”
  • Albanian: “Ankorixh”
  • Amharic: “አንከረጅ”
  • Arabic: “أنكوراج، ألاسكا”
  • Arabic: “أنكوراج، ألسكا”
  • Arabic: “أنكوراج”
  • Arabic: “أنكوريج”
  • Arabic: “بلدية أنكوراج”
  • Aragonese: “Anchorage”
  • Armenian: “Անքորեջ շրջան”
  • Armenian: “Անքորիջ”
  • Asturian: “Anchorage”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ankoric”
  • Bambara: “Anchorage”
  • Banjar: “Anchorage, Alaska”
  • Banjar: “Anchorage”
  • Basque: “Anchorage”
  • Basque: “Dgheyaytnu”
  • Basque: “Dgheyey Kaq’”
  • Bavarian: “Anchorage”
  • Belarusian: “Анкарыдж”
  • Belarusian: “Анкорыдж”
  • Bengali: “অ্যাংকারিজ, আলাস্কা”
  • Bengali: “অ্যাংকারিজ,”
  • Bengali: “অ্যাংকারিজ”
  • Bengali: “অ্যাঙ্কোরেজ”
  • Bishnupriya: “আন্চোরগে ব্যুরো, আলাস্কা”
  • Bishnupriya: “আন্চোরগে ব্যুরো”
  • Bosnian: “Anchorage”
  • Breton: “Anchorage”
  • Bulgarian: “Анкоридж”
  • Bulgarian: “Анкъридж”
  • Catalan: “Anchorage”
  • Cebuano: “Anchorage”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئانکۆریج”
  • Chamorro: “Anchorage”
  • Chechen: “Анкоридж”
  • Chinese: “Anchorage”
  • Chinese: “安克拉治”
  • Chinese: “安克雷奇 / 安克拉治”
  • Chinese: “安克雷奇”
  • Chinese: “安哥拉治”
  • Chinese: “安科雷季”
  • Chuvash: “Анкоридж”
  • Cornish: “Anchorage, Alaska”
  • Cornish: “Anchorage”
  • Croatian: “Anchorage, Aljaska”
  • Croatian: “Anchorage”
  • Czech: “Anchorage”
  • Dagbani: “Anchorage”
  • Danish: “Anchorage”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Anchorage, Alaska”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Anchorage”
  • Dutch: “Anchorage”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “انكوريج”
  • Erzya: “Анкоридж”
  • Esperanto: “Anchorage”
  • Esperanto: “Ankoriĝo”
  • Esperanto: “Enkoraĝo”
  • Estonian: “Anchorage”
  • Faroese: “Anchorage”
  • Finnish: “Anchorage”
  • French: “Anchorage”
  • Galician: “Anchorage”
  • Georgian: “ანკორიჯი”
  • German: “Anchorage Borough”
  • German: “Anchorage Municipality”
  • German: “Anchorage”
  • German: “Municipality of Anchorage”
  • Gilaki: “انکوریج شهرستان”
  • Greek: “Άνκορατζ”
  • Greek: “Ανκορέιτζ”
  • Greek: “Άνκορεϊτζ”
  • Gujarati: “આંકરેજ”
  • Haitian: “Anchorage”
  • Hebrew: “אנקוראג‘”
  • Hebrew: “אנקורג‘”
  • Hebrew: “אנקורג’”
  • Hebrew: “אנקורג”
  • Hindi: “एंकरेज”
  • Hindi: “एंकोरेज, अलास्का”
  • Hindi: “एंकोरेज”
  • Hungarian: “Anchorage”
  • Icelandic: “Anchorage”
  • Ido: “Anchorage, Alaska”
  • Ido: “Anchorage”
  • Indonesian: “Anchorage, Alaska”
  • Indonesian: “Anchorage”
  • Interlingua: “Anchorage”
  • Interlingue: “Anchorage”
  • Inupiaq: “Kisaġvik”
  • Irish: “Anchorage, Alasca”
  • Irish: “Anchorage”
  • Italian: “Anchorage”
  • Japanese: “アンカレジ”
  • Japanese: “アンカレッジ”
  • Kannada: “ಆಂಕರೇಜ್”
  • Kazakh: “Анкоридж”
  • Korean: “앵커리지”
  • Ladin: “Anchorage”
  • Latin: “Ancoraria”
  • Latvian: “Anchorage”
  • Latvian: “Ankoridža”
  • Latvian: “Enkoradže”
  • Lithuanian: “Ankoridžas”
  • Lombard: “Anchorage”
  • Low German: “Anchorage”
  • Macedonian: “Енкориџ”
  • Malagasy: “Anchorage, Alaska”
  • Malagasy: “Anchorage”
  • Malay: “Anchorage”
  • Malayalam: “ആങ്കറേജ്, അലാസ്ക”
  • Malayalam: “ആങ്കറേജ്”
  • Maltese: “Anchorage”
  • Marathi: “अँकरेज”
  • Marathi: “अँकोरेज”
  • Mazanderani: “انکوریج شهرستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Anchorage”
  • Mingrelian: “ანკორიჯი”
  • Moksha: “Анкоридж”
  • Mongolian: “Анкораж”
  • Mongolian: “Анкориж”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Anchorage”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Anchorage”
  • Norwegian: “Anchorage”
  • Novial: “Anchorage, Alaska”
  • Novial: “Anchorage”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Anchorage”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ancoredage”
  • Ossetian: “Анкоридж”
  • Papiamento: “Anchorage”
  • Persian: “انکورج”
  • Persian: “انکوریج”
  • Piemontese: “Anchorage”
  • Polish: “Anchorage”
  • Portuguese: “Anchorage”
  • Romanian: “Anchorage, Alaska”
  • Romanian: “Anchorage”
  • Russian: “Анкоридж”
  • Rusyn: “Анкоридж”
  • Sardinian: “Anchorage”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Anchorage, Alasca”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Anchorage”
  • Serbian: “Anchorage”
  • Serbian: “Енкориџ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Anchorage, Alaska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Anchorage”
  • Sicilian: “Anchorage”
  • Silesian: “Anchorage”
  • Sinhala: “ඇන්කරේජ්”
  • Slovak: “Anchorage”
  • Slovenian: “Anchorage”
  • South Azerbaijani: “انکوریج”
  • Spanish: “Anchorage (Alaska)”
  • Spanish: “Anchorage”
  • Spanish: “La ciudad de las luces y las flores”
  • Spanish: “Municipalidad de Anchorage”
  • Spanish: “Municipio del área metropolitana de Anchorage”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Anchorage”
  • Swahili: “Anchorage, Alaska”
  • Swahili: “Anchorage”
  • Swedish: “Anchorage, Alaska”
  • Swedish: “Anchorage”
  • Tagalog: “Anchorage, Alaska”
  • Tagalog: “Anchorage”
  • Tajik: “Анкориҷ”
  • Talysh: “Ankoric”
  • Talysh: “Ankorič”
  • Tamil: “ஏங்கரெஜ்”
  • Tamil: “ஏங்கரேஜ்”
  • Tamil: “ஏன்கரேஜ்”
  • Tatar: “Анкоридж”
  • Tatar: “Әңкориҗ”
  • Telugu: “ఆంకరేజ్”
  • Thai: “แองคอริจ”
  • Thai: “แองเคอเรจ”
  • Turkish: “Anchorage, Alaska”
  • Turkish: “Anchorage”
  • Turkish: “Municipality of Anchorage”
  • Turkmen: “Ankoridj”
  • Ukrainian: “Анкоридж”
  • Ukrainian: “Анкорідж”
  • Urdu: “اینکرایج، الاسکا”
  • Urdu: “اینکرایج”
  • Uzbek: “Ankorij”
  • Venetian: “Anchorage”
  • Veps: “Ankoridž”
  • Vietnamese: “Anchorage, Alaska”
  • Vietnamese: “Anchorage”
  • Vlax Romani: “Anchorage”
  • Volapük: “Anchorage”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Anchorage, Alaska”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Anchorage”
  • Welsh: “Anchorage, Alaska”
  • Welsh: “Anchorage”
  • Western Frisian: “Anchorage”
  • Western Mari: “Анкоридж”
  • Wu Chinese: “安克雷奇”
  • Yakut: “Анкоридж”
  • Yue Chinese: “安克拉治”
  • Yue Chinese: “安克雷奇”
  • Zeeuws: “Anchorage”
  • “Anchorage”

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