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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  • Town with 8,460 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 26 feet (8 metres)
  • …has the IATA airport code SIT
  • Description: consolidated city-borough in Alaska, United States of America
  • Postal code: 99835
  • Also known as
    “City and Borough of Sitka”
    “Fort New Archangel”
    “New Archangel”
    “Novo - Arkhangel’sk”
    “Schitcha”
    “Schitka”
    “Schitkha”
    “Sheet’ka”
    “Sikhta”
    “Sitka, Alaska”
    “Sitkha”
    “Sitki”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Saint Michael’s Russian Orthodox Church and Japonski Island.
Barek, Public domain.
St. Michael's Cathedral is a cathedral of the…
is a small island in the city of Sitka…
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is a national historical park in Sitka, Alaska.

Sitka

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Latitude
57.0528° or 57° 3′ 10″ north
Longitude
-135.3317° or 135° 19′ 54″ west
UN/LOCODE
US SIT
Open location code
94963M39+48
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1505783342
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
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: “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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