Ketchikan

Ketchikan is a scenic town of approximately 14,000 people along the Tongass Narrows, at the foot of Deer Mountain, on Revillagigedo Island in . It is the southernmost and fourth largest city in .
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  • Type: Town with 7,450 residents
  • Description: city in Alaska, USA
  • Also known as: “Ketchikan City”, “Ketchikan, AK”, “Ketchikan, Alaska”, “Kichikan”, “Kitchikan”, and “Kitskan”
  • Postal codes: 99901 and 99950

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base and Totem Heritage Center.

Aerodrome
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is a privately owned, public use seaplane base located at the harbor of Ketchikan, a city in the of the U.S. state of .

Museum
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The is a historical and cultural founded in 1976 and located in Ketchikan, Alaska. The center is operated by the city of Ketchikan.

Historic site
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The encompasses what was historically the southern portion of Ketchikan, Alaska. It extends along Stedman and Thomas Streets, from Ketchikan Creek in the north to East Street in the south, and includes a few properties on adjacent spur side streets.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saxman.

Village
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is a town on in in southeastern , United States. As of the 2020 census, had a population of 384. is situated 2½ miles southeast of Ketchikan.

Ketchikan

Latitude
55.3431° or 55° 20′ 35″ north
Longitude
-131.6467° or 131° 38′ 48″ west
Population
7,450
Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)
IATA airport code
KTN
United Nations Location Code
US KTN
Open location code
947C89V3+68
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150917043
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5554428
Wiki­data ID
Q43981
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Ketchikan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كيتشيكان”
  • Azerbaijani: “Keçingen”
  • Basque: “Ketchikan”
  • Basque: “Kichx̱áan”
  • Belarusian: “Кетчыкан”
  • Bengali: “কেচিক্যান”
  • Breton: “Ketchikan”
  • Catalan: “Ketchikan”
  • Cebuano: “Ketchikan”
  • Central Kurdish: “کێتچیکان، ئالاسکا”
  • Chamorro: “Ketchikan”
  • Chechen: “Кетчикан”
  • Chinese: “Ketchikan”
  • Chinese: “克奇坎”
  • Chinese: “凯奇坎”
  • Cornish: “Ketchikan, Alaska”
  • Cornish: “Ketchikan”
  • Czech: “Ketchikan”
  • Dagbani: “Ketchikan”
  • Danish: “Ketchikan, Alaska”
  • Danish: “Ketchikan”
  • Dutch: “Ketchikan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيتشيكان”
  • Esperanto: “Ketchikan”
  • Finnish: “Ketchikan”
  • French: “Ketchikan”
  • German: “Ketchikan”
  • Gilaki: “کچیکان”
  • Greek: “Κέτσικαν”
  • Gujarati: “કેટચિકાન”
  • Haitian: “Ketchikan”
  • Hebrew: “קטצ’יקן”
  • Hebrew: “קטציקן”
  • Hindi: “केटचिकन”
  • Hungarian: “Ketchikan”
  • Icelandic: “Ketchikan”
  • Indonesian: “Ketchikan, Alaska”
  • Indonesian: “Ketchikan”
  • Irish: “Ketchikan, Alasca”
  • Irish: “Ketchikan”
  • Italian: “Ketchikan”
  • Japanese: “ケチカン”
  • Kannada: “ಕೆಟ್ಚಿಕಾನ್”
  • Korean: “케치캔”
  • Ladin: “Ketchikan”
  • Latvian: “Kečikana”
  • Lithuanian: “Ketčikanas”
  • Malagasy: “Ketchikan, Alaska”
  • Malagasy: “Ketchikan”
  • Malay: “Ketchikan”
  • Malayalam: “കെച്ചികാൻ, അലാസ്ക”
  • Malayalam: “കെച്ചികാൻ”
  • Marathi: “केटचिकान”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ketchikan”
  • Newari: “केचिकान (अलास्का)”
  • Newari: “केचिकान, अलास्का”
  • Newari: “केचिकान”
  • Newari: “केत्चिकान (अलास्का)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ketchikan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ketchikan”
  • Norwegian: “Ketchikan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ketchikan”
  • Pampanga: “Ketchikan, Alaska”
  • Pampanga: “Ketchikan”
  • Persian: “کتچیکن”
  • Persian: “کچیکان، آلاسکا”
  • Persian: “کچیکان، الاسکا”
  • Persian: “کچیکان”
  • Polish: “Ketchikan”
  • Portuguese: “Ketchican”
  • Portuguese: “Ketchikan”
  • Russian: “Кетчикан”
  • Russian: “Кетчикен”
  • Serbian: “Ketchikan”
  • Serbian: “Кечикан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ketchikan, Alaska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ketchikan”
  • Sinhala: “කෙට්චිකන්”
  • Slovak: “Ketchikan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کچیکان، آلاسکا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کچیکان”
  • Spanish: “Ketchikan (Alaska)”
  • Spanish: “Ketchikan”
  • Swedish: “Ketchikan”
  • Tagalog: “Ketchikan, Alaska”
  • Tagalog: “Ketchikan”
  • Talysh: “Ketcikan”
  • Tamil: “கேட்சிகென்”
  • Tatar: “Кетчикан”
  • Telugu: “కేటీచికాన్”
  • Thai: “เคตชิแกน”
  • Turkish: “Ketchikan, Alaska”
  • Turkish: “Ketchikan”
  • Ukrainian: “Кетчикан”
  • Urdu: “کٹچیکان، الاسکا”
  • Urdu: “کٹچیکان”
  • Uzbek: “Ketchikan”
  • Vietnamese: “Ketchikan, Alaska”
  • Vietnamese: “Ketchikan”
  • Volapük: “Ketchikan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ketchikan, Alaska”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ketchikan”
  • Welsh: “Ketchikan, Alaska”
  • Welsh: “Ketchikan”
  • Western Mari: “Кетчикан”
  • Wu Chinese: “克奇坎”

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