Kotzebue

Kotzebue is a town of 3,200 people in . It's an important regional hub and a launching point for flights to remote Arctic wilderness reserves.
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  • Type: Town with 3,100 residents
  • Description: city in Alaska, USA
  • Also known as: “Kee-kik-tag-ameut”, “Kigaktowruk”, “Kikikhtagyut”, “Kikiktagamute”, “Kikiktaruk”, “Kikitak”, “Kikitaruk”, “Kikitaruk Mission”, “Kotzebue, Alaska”, and “Qikiqtagruk”
  • Postal code: 99752

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ralph Wien Memorial Airport.

Aerodrome
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is a state-owned public-use located on the south side of Kotzebue, a city on the in the of the U.S. state of .

Kotzebue

Latitude
66.8982° or 66° 53′ 54″ north
Longitude
-162.5978° or 162° 35′ 52″ west
Population
3,100
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
IATA airport code
OTZ
United Nations Location Code
US OTZ
Open location code
92RVVCX2+7V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150916737
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5866726
Wiki­data ID
Q79810
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Kotzebue” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كوتزبيو (ألاسكا)”
  • Arabic: “كوتزبيو”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kotzebue”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kotzobue”
  • Basque: “Kotzebue”
  • Basque: “Qikiqtaġruk”
  • Bavarian: “Kotzebue”
  • Bengali: “কসেভো”
  • Catalan: “Kotzebue”
  • Cebuano: “Kotzebue”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆتزەبیوو، ئالاسکا”
  • Chamorro: “Kotzebue”
  • Chechen: “Коцебу”
  • Chinese: “Kotzebue”
  • Chinese: “科策布”
  • Czech: “Kotzebue”
  • Dagbani: “Kotzebue”
  • Danish: “Kotzebue”
  • Dutch: “Kotzebue(Alaska)”
  • Dutch: “Kotzebue”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوتزبيو”
  • Esperanto: “Kotzebue”
  • Finnish: “Kotzebue”
  • French: “Kotzebue”
  • German: “Kotzebue”
  • German: “Qikiqtaġruk”
  • Gilaki: “کوتزبو”
  • Greek: “Κοτζέμπουε”
  • Gujarati: “કોત્ઝેબુ”
  • Haitian: “Kotzebue”
  • Hebrew: “קוצביו”
  • Hebrew: “קֵכֵּקְטָרְ‘ז’וּךּ”
  • Hindi: “कोटज़ेबूये”
  • Hungarian: “Kotzebue”
  • Indonesian: “Kotzebue”
  • Inupiaq: “Kikiktagruk”
  • Inupiaq: “Qikiqtaġruk”
  • Inupiaq: “Qiqiktagruk”
  • Irish: “Kotzebue, Alasca”
  • Irish: “Kotzebue”
  • Italian: “Kotzebue”
  • Japanese: “コツェビュー”
  • Japanese: “コッツェブー”
  • Japanese: “コッツビュー”
  • Kannada: “ಕೋಟ್ಝೆಬ್ಯು”
  • Korean: “코체부”
  • Ladin: “Kotzebue”
  • Latvian: “Kotzebue”
  • Lithuanian: “Kocebu”
  • Malagasy: “Kotzebue, Alaska”
  • Malagasy: “Kotzebue”
  • Malay: “Kotzebue”
  • Malayalam: “കോട്സെബ്യൂ, അലാസ്ക”
  • Malayalam: “കോട്സെബ്യൂ”
  • Marathi: “कॅट्झबु”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kotzebue”
  • Newari: “Kotzebue, Alaska”
  • Newari: “कोत्जेब्यु (अलास्का)”
  • Newari: “कोत्जेब्यु, अलास्का”
  • Newari: “कोत्जेब्यु”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kotzebue”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kotzebue”
  • Norwegian: “Kotzebue”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kotzebue”
  • Persian: “کوتزه بیو، آلاسکا”
  • Persian: “کوتزه‌بیو، آلاسکا”
  • Persian: “کوتزه‌بیو، الاسکا”
  • Persian: “کوتزه‌بیو”
  • Polish: “Kotzebue”
  • Portuguese: “Kotzebue”
  • Russian: “Коцебу”
  • Serbian: “Kotzebue”
  • Serbian: “Коцебју”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kotzebue, Alaska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kotzebue”
  • Sicilian: “Kotzebue”
  • Silesian: “Kotzebue”
  • Sinhala: “කොට්සෙබ්යු”
  • Slovak: “Kotzebue”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوتزه‌بیو، آلاسکا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کوتزه‌بیو”
  • Spanish: “Kotzebue (Alaska)”
  • Spanish: “Kotzebue”
  • Swedish: “Kotzebue”
  • Talysh: “Kotsebu”
  • Tamil: “காட்ஸ்பு”
  • Tatar: “Коцебу”
  • Telugu: “కొట్జబుఈ”
  • Thai: “คอตเซอบิว”
  • Turkish: “Kotzebue, Alaska”
  • Turkish: “Kotzebue”
  • Ukrainian: “Коцебу”
  • Urdu: “کوتزابیو، الاسکا”
  • Urdu: “کوتزابیو”
  • Uzbek: “Kotzebue”
  • Vietnamese: “Kotzebue”
  • Volapük: “Kotzebue”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kotzebue, Alaska”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kotzebue”
  • Western Mari: “Коцебу”

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