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Nome

Nome is a city in the region of . It is a town of about 4,000 people, about half of whom are Alaska Natives. It is the transportation and commerce center for Northwest Alaska. It is also the western terminus of the Iditarod Trail.
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  • Type: Town with 3,700 residents
  • Description: city in Alaska, USA
  • Also known as: “Citnacuaq”, “Nome City”, “Nome, Alaska”, and “Sitnasuaq”
  • Historically known as: “Anvil City”
  • Postal codes: 99762 and 99762

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nome City Field and Nome Airport.

Aerodrome
is a state-owned public-use located one nautical mile north of the central business district of Nome, a city in the of the U.S. state of .

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a state-owned public-use located two nautical miles west of the central business district of Nome, a city in the of the U.S. state of .

Nome

Latitude
64.4975° or 64° 29′ 51″ north
Longitude
-165.4062° or 165° 24′ 22″ west
Population
3,700
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
IATA airport code
OME
United Nations Location Code
US OME
Open location code
92PPFHXV+2G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150918612
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5870133
Wiki­data ID
Q79996
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Satellite Map

Discover Nome from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Nome” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نوم”
  • Armenian: “Նոմ (քաղաք)”
  • Armenian: “Նոմ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nom”
  • Basque: “Nome”
  • Basque: “Sitŋasuaq”
  • Bengali: “নোম”
  • Bulgarian: “Ноум”
  • Catalan: “Nome”
  • Cebuano: “Nome”
  • Central Kurdish: “نۆم، ئالاسکا”
  • Central Kurdish: “نۆم”
  • Chechen: “Ном”
  • Chinese: “Nome”
  • Chinese: “诺姆”
  • Chinese: “諾姆”
  • Chinese: “諾姆市”
  • Czech: “Nome”
  • Dagbani: “Nome”
  • Danish: “Nome, Alaska”
  • Danish: “Nome”
  • Dutch: “Nome”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نومى”
  • Esperanto: “Nome”
  • Estonian: “Nome”
  • Finnish: “Nome”
  • French: “Nome”
  • Galician: “Nome, Alasca”
  • Galician: “Nome”
  • German: “Nome”
  • Gilaki: “نوم”
  • Greek: “Νομ”
  • Greek: “Νόουμ”
  • Gujarati: “નોમ”
  • Haitian: “Nome”
  • Hebrew: “נום”
  • Hungarian: “Nome”
  • Indonesian: “Nome, Alaska”
  • Indonesian: “Nome”
  • Inupiaq: “Siqnazuaq”
  • Inupiaq: “Sitŋasuaq”
  • Irish: “Nome, Alasca”
  • Irish: “Nome”
  • Italian: “Nome”
  • Japanese: “ノーム”
  • Kannada: “ನೋಮ್”
  • Kazakh: “Ном”
  • Korean: “놈”
  • Ladin: “Nome”
  • Latvian: “Noma”
  • Latvian: “Nome”
  • Lithuanian: “Nomas”
  • Lithuanian: “Noumas”
  • Macedonian: “Ном”
  • Malagasy: “Nome, Alaska”
  • Malagasy: “Nome”
  • Malay: “Nome”
  • Malayalam: “നോം, അലാസ്ക”
  • Malayalam: “നോം”
  • Marathi: “नोम”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nome”
  • Newari: “Nome, Alaska”
  • Newari: “नोमे (अलास्का)”
  • Newari: “नोमे, अलास्का”
  • Newari: “नोमे”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nome”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nome i Alaska”
  • Norwegian: “Nome”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nome”
  • Persian: “نوم، آلاسکا”
  • Persian: “نوم، الاسکا”
  • Persian: “نوم”
  • Polish: “Nome”
  • Portuguese: “Nome”
  • Romanian: “Nome, Alaska”
  • Romanian: “Nome”
  • Russian: “Ном, Аляска”
  • Russian: “Ном”
  • Serbian: “Ноум”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nome, Alaska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nome”
  • Sicilian: “Nome”
  • Sinhala: “නෝම්”
  • Slovak: “Nome”
  • Slovenian: “Nome”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نوم، آلاسکا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نوم”
  • Spanish: “Nome (Alaska)”
  • Spanish: “Nome”
  • Swedish: “Nome, Alaska”
  • Swedish: “Nome”
  • Talysh: “Nom”
  • Tamil: “நோம்”
  • Tatar: “Ном”
  • Telugu: “నోమె”
  • Thai: “โนม”
  • Turkish: “Nome, Alaska”
  • Turkish: “Nome”
  • Ukrainian: “Ном”
  • Urdu: “نوم، الاسکا”
  • Urdu: “نوم”
  • Uzbek: “Nome”
  • Vietnamese: “Nome”
  • Volapük: “Nome”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nome, Alaska”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nome”
  • Welsh: “Nome, Alaska”
  • Welsh: “Nome”
  • Western Mari: “Ном”
  • Wu Chinese: “诺姆 (阿拉斯加州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “诺姆（阿拉斯加州）”
  • Wu Chinese: “诺姆”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Nome”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.