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Sitka

Sitka is a city of about 9,000 on the Pacific Ocean coast of Baranof Island in . First settled by Tlingit Aboriginal people, Sitka also has history as a Russian settlement, established in 1799 by Alexander Baranoff of the Russian American Company, which became the Russian capital of Alaska.
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  • Type: City with 8,460 residents
  • Description: consolidated city-borough in Alaska, United States of America
  • Also known as: “City and Borough of Sitka”, “Fort New Archangel”, “New Archangel”, “Novo - Arkhangel’sk”, “Novo Arkhangelsk”, “Schitcha”, “Schitka”, “Schitkha”, “Sheet’ka”, “Sikhta”, “Sitka, Alaska”, “Sitkha”, and “Sitki”
  • Postal code: 99835

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cathedral of Saint Michael the Archangel and Sitka National Historical Park.

Church
Photo: Barek, Public domain.
St. Michael's Cathedral is a cathedral of the Orthodox Church in America Diocese of Alaska, at Lincoln and Maksoutoff Streets in Sitka, . The earliest Orthodox cathedral in the New World, it was built in the nineteenth century, when Alaska was under the control of Russia, though this structure burned down in 1966.

Park
Photo: Lordkinbote, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a national historical park in Sitka in the U.S. state of . It was redesignated as a national historical park from its previous status as national monument on October 18, 1972.

Island
is a small island in the city of Sitka in the of southeastern , . It lies across the Sitka Channel from Sitka's central business district.

Sitka

Latitude
57.0528° or 57° 3′ 10″ north
Longitude
-135.3317° or 135° 19′ 54″ west
Population
8,460
Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)
IATA airport code
SIT
United Nations Location Code
US SIT
Open location code
94963M39+48
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1505783342
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5557293
Wiki­data ID
Q79804
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Sitka” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sitka”
  • Albanian: “Sitka City and Borough”
  • Arabic: “سيتكا”
  • Armenian: “Սիտկա շրջան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sitka”
  • Basque: “Sheet’ká”
  • Basque: “Sitka”
  • Belarusian: “Новаархангельск”
  • Belarusian: “Сітка”
  • Bengali: “সিটকা”
  • Bishnupriya: “সিটকা ব্যুরো, আলাস্কা”
  • Bishnupriya: “সিটকা ব্যুরো”
  • Breton: “Sitka”
  • Bulgarian: “Ситка”
  • Catalan: “Sitka”
  • Cebuano: “Sitka City and Borough”
  • Cebuano: “Sitka”
  • Central Kurdish: “سیتکا، ئالاسکا”
  • Chechen: “Ситка”
  • Chinese: “Sitka”
  • Chinese: “矽地卡”
  • Chinese: “錫特卡”
  • Chinese: “锡特卡”
  • Cornish: “Sitka, Alaska”
  • Cornish: “Sitka”
  • Croatian: “Sitka, Aljaska”
  • Croatian: “Sitka”
  • Czech: “Sitka”
  • Dagbani: “Sitka”
  • Danish: “Sitka”
  • Dutch: “Sitka City and Borough”
  • Dutch: “Sitka”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سيتكا”
  • Esperanto: “Sitka”
  • Estonian: “Sitka”
  • Faroese: “Sitka”
  • Finnish: “Novo-Arkangelsk”
  • Finnish: “Novoarkangelsk”
  • Finnish: “Sitka”
  • French: “municipalité et borough de Sitka”
  • French: “Novoarkhangelsk”
  • French: “Sitka”
  • Georgian: “სიტკა”
  • German: “Neu-Archangel”
  • German: “Sitka City and Borough”
  • German: “Sitka”
  • Gilaki: “سیتکا شهرستان”
  • Greek: “Σίτκα”
  • Gujarati: “સિટકા”
  • Haitian: “Sitka”
  • Hebrew: “סיטקה”
  • Hindi: “सिटका”
  • Hungarian: “Sitka”
  • Icelandic: “Sitka”
  • Inari Sami: “Sitka”
  • Indonesian: “Sitka, Alaska”
  • Indonesian: “Sitka”
  • Inupiaq: “Sika”
  • Inupiaq: “Sitka”
  • Irish: “Sitka, Alasca”
  • Irish: “Sitka”
  • Italian: “Novo-Arkhangelsk”
  • Italian: “Nuova Arcangelo”
  • Italian: “Sitka City and Borough”
  • Italian: “Sitka”
  • Japanese: “シトカ”
  • Japanese: “シトカ市、及び郡”
  • Japanese: “シトカ市及郡”
  • Kannada: “ಸಿಟ್ಕಾ”
  • Korean: “싯카”
  • Ladin: “Sitka”
  • Latin: “Sitcha”
  • Latvian: “Novoarhangeļska”
  • Latvian: “Sitka”
  • Lithuanian: “Novoarchangelskas”
  • Lithuanian: “Sitka”
  • Low German: “Sitka”
  • Malagasy: “Sitka, Alaska”
  • Malagasy: “Sitka”
  • Malay: “Sitka”
  • Malayalam: “സിറ്റ്ക”
  • Marathi: “सिटीका”
  • Mazanderani: “سیتکا شهرستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sitka”
  • Newari: “Sitka, Alaska”
  • Newari: “सित्का (अलास्का)”
  • Newari: “सित्का, अलास्का”
  • Newari: “सित्का”
  • Northern Sami: “Sitka”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sitka City and Borough”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sitka”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sitka”
  • Norwegian: “City and Borough of Sitka”
  • Norwegian: “Sitka”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sitka”
  • Ossetian: “Новоархангельск”
  • Ossetian: “Ситкæ”
  • Ossetian: “Ситка”
  • Persian: “سیتکا، آلاسکا”
  • Persian: “سیتکا، الاسکا”
  • Persian: “سیتکا”
  • Polish: “Sitka”
  • Portuguese: “Sitka”
  • Romanian: “Sitka, Alaska”
  • Romanian: “Sitka”
  • Russian: “Ново-Архангельск”
  • Russian: “Ситка”
  • Russian: “Ситха”
  • Scots: “Sitka”
  • Serbian: “Ситка”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sitka, Alaska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sitka”
  • Sinhala: “සිට්කා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Sitka”
  • Slovak: “Sitka”
  • Slovenian: “Sitka”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سیتکا، آلاسکا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سیتکا”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad y Borough de Sitka”
  • Spanish: “Nuevo Arcangel”
  • Spanish: “Nuevo Arcángel”
  • Spanish: “Sitka (Alaska)”
  • Spanish: “Sitka”
  • Swedish: “Ny Archangelsk”
  • Swedish: “Sitka”
  • Tagalog: “Sitka, Alaska”
  • Tagalog: “Sitka”
  • Talysh: “Sitka”
  • Tamil: “ஸிட்கா”
  • Tatar: “Ситка”
  • Telugu: “సిట్క”
  • Thai: “ซิทกา”
  • Turkish: “City and Borough of Sitka”
  • Turkish: “Sitka City and Borough”
  • Turkish: “Sitka, Alaska”
  • Turkish: “Sitka”
  • Ukrainian: “Ситка”
  • Ukrainian: “Сітка”
  • Urdu: “سیٹکا، الاسکا”
  • Urdu: “سیٹکا”
  • Uzbek: “Sitka”
  • Venetian: “Sitka”
  • Vietnamese: “Sitka”
  • Volapük: “Sitka”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sitka, Alaska”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sitka”
  • Welsh: “Sitka, Alaska”
  • Welsh: “Sitka”
  • Western Mari: “Ситка”
  • Western Panjabi: “سیٹکا، الاسکا”
  • Western Panjabi: “سیٹکا”
  • Wu Chinese: “锡特卡 (阿拉斯加州)”
  • Wu Chinese: “锡特卡（阿拉斯加州）”
  • Yue Chinese: “錫特卡”

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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 “Sitka”. Photo: Henry P. Gray, CC BY-SA 3.0.