Utqiagvik
Utqiaġvik is a city that is 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle on the Arctic Ocean in Arctic Alaska. The city holds the distinction of being the northernmost settlement in the United States, and the northernmost settlement on the North American mainland.
- Type: Town with 4,010 residents
- Description: most northerly city in Alaska, United States of America
- Also known as: “Barova”, “Barrow (Alaska)”, “Barrow, AK”, “Ukpeagvik”, “Ukpeaġvik”, “Ukpiaġvik”, “Utqiaġvik”, “Utqiagvik, AK”, “Utqiagvik, Alaska”, “אוטקיארוויק”, “בארו”, “إنوبياك”, “إينوبياك”, “بارو، الاسکا”, “ब्यारो (अलास्का)”, and “ব্যারো”
- Historically known as: “Barrow”
- Postal code: 99723
Places of Interest
Highlights: Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport.
Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Utqiagvik
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: North Slope, Arctic Alaska, Alaska, United States, North America
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Latitude
71.2905° or 71° 17′ 26″ north
Longitude
-156.7884° or 156° 47′ 18″ west
Population
4,010
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
IATA airport code
BRW
UN/LOCODE
US BRW
Open location code
C33576R6+6J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Utqiagvik” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Utqiaġvik”
- Arabic: “بارو”
- Armenian: “Ուտկիագվիկ”
- Azerbaijani: “Borrou” (historical)
- Azerbaijani: “Utkiagvik”
- Basque: “Utqiaġvik”
- Belarusian: “Бараў”
- Bengali: “উৎকিয়াভিক”
- Catalan: “Utqiagvik”
- Cebuano: “Barrow”
- Central Kurdish: “ئوتکیاگڤیک، ئالاسکا”
- Chechen: “Барроу (гӀала)”
- Chechen: “Барроу”
- Chinese: “巴罗”
- Chinese: “巴羅”
- Chinese: “烏特恰維克”
- Czech: “Utqiaġvik”
- Danish: “Utqiagvik”
- Dutch: “Utqiagvik”
- Dutch: “Utqiaġvik”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بارو”
- Esperanto: “Barrow”
- Estonian: “Utqiaġvik”
- Faroese: “Barrow”
- Finnish: “Barrow”
- Finnish: “Utqiagvik”
- French: “Utqiagvik”
- Galician: “Barrow”
- Galician: “Utqiagvik”
- German: “Utqiagvik”
- German: “Utqiaġvik”
- Gilaki: “اۊتکياويک”
- Greek: “Μπάροου”
- Greek: “Ουτκιάγβικ”
- Gujarati: “યુટકીગવિક”
- Haitian: “Barrow”
- Haitian: “Utqiaġvik”
- Hebrew: “אוטקיאוויק”
- Hungarian: “Utqiaġvik”
- Indonesian: “Barrow”
- Indonesian: “Utqiagvik, Alaska”
- Inuktitut: “ᐅᑦᕿᐊᒡᕕᒃ”
- Inupiaq: “Utqiaġvik”
- Irish: “Barrow, Alasca”
- Irish: “Barrow”
- Italian: “Utqiaġvik”
- Japanese: “ウトキアグヴィク”
- Japanese: “バロー”
- Kannada: “ಉಟ್ಕ್ವಿಯಾಗ್ವಿಕ್”
- Korean: “배로”
- Ladin: “Utqiagvik”
- Latvian: “Utkiarvika”
- Lithuanian: “Utkiagvikas”
- Malagasy: “Barrow, Alaska”
- Malagasy: “Barrow”
- Malay: “Barrow”
- Malayalam: “ബറോ, അലാസ്ക”
- Malayalam: “ബറോ”
- Marathi: “अटकिवीक”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Barrow”
- Mingrelian: “უტქვიაგვიკი”
- Mingrelian: “უტქიაგვიკი”
- Newari: “ब्यारो, अलास्का”
- Newari: “ब्यारो”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Utqiaġvik”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Utqiaġvik”
- Norwegian: “Utqiaġvik”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Utqiaġvik”
- Ossetian: “Уткиагвик”
- Persian: “بارو، آلاسکا”
- Persian: “بارو”
- Persian: “یوتکیاجویک”
- Polish: “Barrow”
- Polish: “Utqiaġvik”
- Portuguese: “Barrow”
- Portuguese: “Utqiagvik”
- Romanian: “Barrow, Alaska”
- Romanian: “Utqiaġvik”
- Russian: “Барроу” (historical)
- Russian: “Уткиагвик”
- Serbian: “Бароу” (historical)
- Serbian: “Уткиагвик”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Barrow”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Utqiaġvik”
- Sinhala: “අට්කියාග්වික්”
- Slovak: “Utqiagvik”
- Slovenian: “Utqiagvik”
- South Azerbaijani: “بارو، آلاسکا”
- South Azerbaijani: “بارو”
- Spanish: “Utqiagvik”
- Spanish: “Utqiaġvik”
- Swedish: “Utqiaġvik”
- Talysh: “Utkiagvik”
- Tamil: “அட்கிவிக்”
- Tamil: “உட்கியாகவிக், அலாஸ்கா”
- Tatar: “Барроу (мисто)”
- Tatar: “Барроу”
- Telugu: “ఉతికీయాగ్వీక్”
- Thai: “อัทเคียจีวิค”
- Thai: “อุตเกอาร์วิก”
- Turkish: “Barrow, Alaska”
- Turkish: “Barrow”
- Ukrainian: “Мис Барроу” (historical)
- Ukrainian: “Уткіагвік”
- Urdu: “بیرو، الاسکا”
- Urdu: “بیرو”
- Uzbek: “Barrow”
- Vietnamese: “Utqiagvik”
- Volapük: “Barrow”
- Waray (Philippines): “Barrow, Alaska”
- Waray (Philippines): “Barrow”
- Welsh: “Utqiaġvik”
- Western Mari: “Барроу” (historical)
- Western Mari: “Уткиагвик”
- Wu Chinese: “乌特恰维克 (阿拉斯加州)”
- Wu Chinese: “乌特恰维克（阿拉斯加州）”
- Yue Chinese: “烏特恰維克”
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