Juneau

Juneau is the capital of , in the state's region. Juneau is on the North American mainland and yet cannot be reached by land. Effectively, the rugged mountains surrounding it make Juneau into an island city, reachable only by air or by sea.
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  • Type: City with 31,000 residents
  • Description: consolidated city-borough and state capital of Alaska, United States
  • Also known as: City and Borough of Juneau”, “Dzanti K’iheeni”, “Fliptown”, “Harrisburg”, “Juneau City”, “Juneau Wharf”, “Juneau, AK”, “Juneau, Alaska”, “Pilzburg”, and “Rockwell
  • Postal codes: 99801-99803, 99811, and 99850

Places of Interest

Highlights include Alaska State Capitol and Mount Juneau.

Government office
The is the building that hosts the Alaska Legislature and the offices of the Governor of Alaska and Lieutenant Governor of Alaska.

Peak
is a 3,576-foot massif in just one and a half miles east of downtown Juneau, , in the Boundary Ranges.

Museum
The is a in Juneau, , United States. It was established in 1900 to collect both the human and natural history of Alaska. The museum was moved to a new building after a $139 million refurbishment, reopening in 2016.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Juneau and Vanderbilt Hill.

Hamlet
is a populated place in Juneau, , . It is located on 1.8 miles northwest of Douglas. Despite its location on Douglas Island, the neighborhood was juridically a part of the City of Juneau, rather than the City of Douglas, prior to municipal unification in 1970.

Hamlet
Juneau, officially the City and Borough of Juneau, is the capital of the U.S. state of , located along the and the .

Juneau

Latitude
58.302° or 58° 18′ 7″ north
Longitude
-134.4197° or 134° 25′ 11″ west
Population
31,000
Elevation
56 feet (17 metres)
IATA airport code
JNU
United Nations Location Code
US JNU
Open location code
94C78H2J+Q4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150918835
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5554072
Wiki­data ID
Q29445
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Juneau” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Juneau
  • Albanian: Juneau (Alaska)
  • Albanian: Juneau, Alaska
  • Albanian: Juneau
  • Amharic: ጁነው፣ አላስካ
  • Arabic: جونو
  • Arabic: جونيو، ألاسكا
  • Aragonese: Juneau
  • Armenian: Ջունո
  • Asturian: Juneau
  • Azerbaijani: Cuno
  • Basque: Dzantik’i Héeni
  • Basque: Juneau
  • Bavarian: Juneau
  • Belarusian: Джуна
  • Bengali: জুনো
  • Bhojpuri: जुन्यु
  • Bishnupriya: জুনাউ ব্যুরো, আলাস্কা
  • Bishnupriya: জুনাউ ব্যুরো
  • Bislama: Juneau, Alaska
  • Bislama: Juneau
  • Bosnian: Juneau
  • Breton: Juneau
  • Bulgarian: Джуно
  • Catalan: Juneau
  • Cebuano: Juneau (kapital sa estado)
  • Cebuano: Juneau City and Borough
  • Cebuano: Juneau
  • Central Kurdish: جونۆ
  • Chamorro: Juneau
  • Chechen: Джуно
  • Chinese: Juneau
  • Chinese: 朱诺 / 朱諾
  • Chinese: 朱諾
  • Cornish: Juneau, Alaska
  • Cornish: Juneau
  • Corsican: Juneau
  • Crimean Tatar: Cuno
  • Croatian: Juneau, Aljaska
  • Croatian: Juneau
  • Czech: Juneau
  • Dagbani: Juneau
  • Danish: Juneau, Alaska
  • Danish: Juneau
  • Dimli (individual language): Juneau, Alaska
  • Dimli (individual language): Juneau
  • Dutch: Juneau
  • Egyptian Arabic: جونو
  • Esperanto: Juneau
  • Estonian: Juneau
  • Extremaduran: Juneau
  • Faroese: Juneau
  • Finnish: Juneau, Alaska
  • Finnish: Juneau
  • French: Juneau
  • French: Municipalité et borough de Juneau
  • Galician: Juneau
  • Gan Chinese: 朱諾
  • Georgian: ჯუნო
  • German: Juneau
  • Gilaki: جونو شهرستان
  • Gothic: 𐌾𐌿𐌽𐍉
  • Greek: Τζούνο
  • Gujarati: જુનુ
  • Haitian: Juneau
  • Hebrew: ג’ונו
  • Hebrew: גונו
  • Hindi: जूनो
  • Hungarian: Juneau
  • Icelandic: Juneau
  • Ido: Juneau
  • Iloko: Juneau, Alaska
  • Iloko: Juneau
  • Indonesian: Juneau, Alaska
  • Indonesian: Juneau
  • Interlingua: Juneau
  • Interlingue: Juneau
  • Inupiaq: Tisaantikii Hiinii
  • Irish: Juneau, Alasca
  • Irish: Juneau
  • Italian: Juneau
  • Japanese: ジュノー
  • Kannada: ಜುನೇಯು
  • Kannada: ಜೂನೋ
  • Kirghiz: Жуно
  • Korean: 주노
  • Kurdish: Juneau
  • Ladin: Juneau
  • Ladino: Juneau
  • Latin: Iunellum
  • Latvian: Džūno
  • Ligurian: Juneau
  • Lithuanian: Džunas
  • Lombard: Juneau
  • Low German: Juneau
  • Macedonian: Џуно
  • Malagasy: Juneau, Alaska
  • Malagasy: Juneau
  • Malay: Juneau, Alaska
  • Malay: Juneau
  • Malayalam: ജുന്യൂ, അലാസ്ക
  • Malayalam: ജുന്യൂ
  • Marathi: जुनू
  • Mazanderani: جونو شهرستان
  • Min Nan Chinese: Juneau
  • Mingrelian: ჯუნო
  • Mongolian: Жуно
  • Neapolitan: Juneau
  • Newari: जुन्यु, अलास्का
  • Newari: जुन्यु
  • Northern Frisian: Juneau
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Juneau
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Juneau
  • Norwegian: Juneau
  • Occitan (post 1500): Juneau
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Iūnēawhām
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): Iūnēaƿhām
  • Oriya: ଜୁନୋ
  • Ossetian: Джуно
  • Pali: जुन्यु
  • Pampanga: Juneau
  • Persian: جونو، آلاسکا
  • Persian: جونو
  • Piemontese: Juneau
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: Juuno
  • Polish: Juneau
  • Portuguese: Juneau
  • Quechua: Juneau
  • Romanian: Juneau, Alaska
  • Romanian: Juneau
  • Romansh: Juneau
  • Russian: Джуно
  • Samogitian: Džuns
  • Sanskrit: जुनो
  • Sardinian: Juneau
  • Scots: Juneau, Alaska
  • Scots: Juneau
  • Scottish Gaelic: Juneau, Alasca
  • Scottish Gaelic: Juneau
  • Serbian: Џуно
  • Serbo-Croatian: Juneau, Alaska
  • Serbo-Croatian: Juneau
  • Sicilian: Juneau
  • Silesian: Juneau
  • Sinhala: ජුනෝ
  • Slovak: Juneau
  • Slovenian: Juneau
  • South Azerbaijani: جونو، آلاسکا
  • South Azerbaijani: جونو
  • Spanish: Juneau (Alaska)
  • Spanish: Juneau
  • Swahili: Juneau, Alaska
  • Swahili: Juneau
  • Swedish: Juneau, Alaska
  • Swedish: Juneau
  • Tagalog: Juneau, Alaska
  • Tagalog: Juneau
  • Talysh: Žuno
  • Tamil: ஜூனோ
  • Tatar: Җуно
  • Telugu: జునేయు
  • Thai: จูโน
  • Thai: จูโนว์
  • Tumbuka: Juneau, Alaska
  • Tumbuka: Juneau
  • Turkish: Juneau, Alaska
  • Turkish: Juneau
  • Ukrainian: Джуно
  • Urdu: جونیاؤ، الاسکا
  • Urdu: جونیاؤ
  • Urdu: جونیا‌ؤ
  • Uzbek: Juneau
  • Venetian: Juneau
  • Vietnamese: Juneau, Alaska
  • Vietnamese: Juneau
  • Volapük: Juneau
  • Waray (Philippines): Juneau, Alaska
  • Waray (Philippines): Juneau
  • Welsh: Juneau, Alaska
  • Welsh: Juneau
  • Western Frisian: Juneau
  • Western Mari: Джуно
  • Western Panjabi: اوکلاہوما سٹی
  • Wu Chinese: 朱诺 (阿拉斯加州)
  • Wu Chinese: 朱诺(阿拉斯加州)
  • Yakut: Джуно
  • Yue Chinese: 朱諾
  • Džuns
  • Juneau

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