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Petersburg Borough

Petersburg

Petersburg is a census-designated place in and essentially the borough seat of , , United States. The population was 3,043 at the 2020 census, up from 2,948 in 2010.
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  • Type: Town with 3,040 residents
  • Description: census-designated place in and borough seat of Petersburg Borough, Alaska, United States
  • Also known as: “Petersburg, AK”, “Petersburg, Alaska”, and “Seet Ka”
  • Postal code: 99833

Places of Interest

Highlights include Petersburg James A. Johnson Airport and Sons of Norway Hall.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a state owned, public use located one nautical mile southeast of the central business district of Petersburg, a city in the of the U.S. state of that has no road access to the outside world.

Monument
Photo: Jet Lowe, Public domain.
The , also known as Fedrelandet Lodge #23, is a historic fraternal society building on Indian St. in Petersburg, Alaska. It is a large two-story wood-frame structure with a gambrel roof, measuring about 105 feet in length and 55 feet in width.

School
is the public high school for the Southeast Alaskan community of Petersburg and the Petersburg City School District. The current principal is Rick Dormer.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kupreanof.

Hamlet
Photo: Gillfoto, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city on the eastern shore of in the , in the U.S. state of . The population was 21 as of the 2020 census, down from 27 in 2010. It is the smallest incorporated city in the state as of 2020.

Petersburg

Latitude
56.8134° or 56° 48′ 48″ north
Longitude
-132.9572° or 132° 57′ 26″ west
Population
3,040
Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)
IATA airport code
PSG
United Nations Location Code
US PSG
Open location code
9489R27V+94
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150920001
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5556338
Wiki­data ID
Q80027
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Petersburg” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بطرسبورغ”
  • Basque: “Petersburg”
  • Catalan: “Petersburg”
  • Cebuano: “Petersburg”
  • Chechen: “Питерсберг”
  • Chinese: “Petersburg”
  • Chinese: “彼得堡”
  • Chinese: “彼得斯堡”
  • Czech: “Petersburg”
  • Dutch: “Petersburg”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بطرسبورج”
  • Esperanto: “Peterburg”
  • Esperanto: “Peterburgo”
  • Finnish: “Petersburg”
  • French: “Petersburg”
  • Georgian: “პიტერსბერგი”
  • German: “Petersburg Borough”
  • German: “Petersburg”
  • Gilaki: “پيترزبرگ”
  • Haitian: “Petersburg”
  • Hungarian: “Petersburg”
  • Irish: “Petersburg, Alasca”
  • Irish: “Petersburg”
  • Italian: “Borough di Petersburg”
  • Italian: “Petersburg”
  • Japanese: “アラスカ州ピータースバーグ”
  • Japanese: “ピーターズバーグ”
  • Ladin: “Petersburg”
  • Malagasy: “Petersburg, Alaska”
  • Malagasy: “Petersburg”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Petersburg Kūn”
  • Newari: “Petersburg, Alaska”
  • Newari: “पिटरस्बर्ग (अलास्का)”
  • Newari: “पिटरस्बर्ग, अलास्का”
  • Newari: “पिटरस्बर्ग”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Petersburg”
  • Norwegian: “Petersburg”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Petersburg”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Petersburg, Alaska”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Petersburg”
  • Persian: “پیترزبورگ، آلاسکا”
  • Persian: “پیترزبورگ، الاسکا”
  • Persian: “پیترزبورگ”
  • Polish: “Petersburg”
  • Portuguese: “Petersburg”
  • Russian: “Петербург”
  • Russian: “Петерсбург”
  • Russian: “Питерсберг”
  • Serbian: “Питерсбург”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Petersburg, Alaska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Petersburg”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پیترزبورق، آلاسکا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پیترزبورق”
  • Spanish: “Petersburg”
  • Spanish: “Petersburgo (Alaska)”
  • Spanish: “Petersburgo”
  • Swedish: “Petersburg, Alaska”
  • Swedish: “Petersburg”
  • Talysh: “Pitersberg”
  • Tatar: “Питерсберг”
  • Ukrainian: “Пітерсберг”
  • Urdu: “پیٹرزبرگ، الاسکا”
  • Urdu: “پیٹرزبرگ”
  • Uzbek: “Petersburg”
  • Venetian: “Petersburgo”
  • Volapük: “Petersburg”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Petersburg, Alaska”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Petersburg”
  • Western Mari: “Петербург”

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