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Utqiagvik

Utqiaġvik is a city that is 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle on the Arctic Ocean in . The city holds the distinction of being the northernmost settlement in the United States, and the northernmost settlement on the North American mainland.
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  • Type: Town with 4,010 residents
  • Description: most northerly city in Alaska, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Barrow, AK”, “Barrow, Alaska”, “Ukpeaġvik”, “Ukpiaġvik”, “Utqiaġvik”, “Utqiagvik, AK”, and “Utqiagvik, Alaska”
  • Historically known as: “Barrow”
  • Postal code: 99723

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport, often referred to as Post/Rogers Memorial, is a public located in Utqiaġvik, the largest city and borough seat of the of the U.S. state of .

Utqiagvik

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
United Nations Location Code
US BRW
Open location code
C33576R6+6J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150920450
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5880054
Wiki­data ID
Q79809
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Utqiagvik” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Utqiaġvik”
  • Arabic: “إنوبياك”
  • Arabic: “إينوبياك”
  • Arabic: “بارو”
  • Armenian: “Ուտկիագվիկ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Borrou” (historical)
  • Basque: “Barrow”
  • Basque: “Utqiagvik”
  • Basque: “Utqiaġvik”
  • Belarusian: “Бараў”
  • Bengali: “উৎকিয়াভিক”
  • Bengali: “ব্যারো”
  • Catalan: “Barrow”
  • Catalan: “Utqiagvik”
  • Cebuano: “Barrow”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئوتکیاگڤیک، ئالاسکا”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئوتکیاگڤیک”
  • Chechen: “Барроу (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Барроу”
  • Chinese: “Barrow”
  • Chinese: “巴罗”
  • Chinese: “巴羅”
  • Chinese: “烏特恰維克”
  • Czech: “Barrow”
  • Czech: “Utqiaġvik”
  • Danish: “Barrow”
  • Danish: “Utqiagvik”
  • Dutch: “Barrow”
  • Dutch: “Utqiagvik”
  • Dutch: “Utqiaġvik”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بارو”
  • Esperanto: “Barrow”
  • Estonian: “Utqiaġvik”
  • Faroese: “Barrow”
  • Finnish: “Barrow”
  • Finnish: “Utqiagvik”
  • French: “Barrow”
  • French: “Ukpeaġvik”
  • French: “Ukpiaġvik”
  • French: “Utqiagvik”
  • French: “Utqiaġvik”
  • Galician: “Barrow”
  • Galician: “Utqiagvik”
  • German: “Barrow”
  • German: “Ukpiaġvik”
  • German: “Utqiagvik”
  • German: “Utqiaġvik”
  • Gilaki: “اۊتکياويک”
  • Greek: “Μπάροου”
  • Greek: “Ουτκιάγβικ”
  • Gujarati: “યુટકીગવિક”
  • Haitian: “Barrow”
  • Haitian: “Utqiaġvik”
  • Hebrew: “בארו”
  • Hungarian: “Barrow”
  • Hungarian: “Utqiaġvik”
  • Indonesian: “Barrow”
  • Indonesian: “Utqiagvik, Alaska”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐅᑦᕿᐊᒡᕕᒃ”
  • Inupiaq: “Ukpeagvik”
  • Inupiaq: “Ukpeaġvik”
  • Inupiaq: “Ukpiaġvik”
  • 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: “Barova”
  • Latvian: “Utkiarvika”
  • Lithuanian: “Barrow”
  • 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, अलास्का”
  • Newari: “ब्यारो”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barrow”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Utqiaġvik”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Barrow”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Utqiaġvik”
  • Norwegian: “Utqiaġvik”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Barrow”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Utqiagvik”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Utqiaġvik”
  • Ossetian: “Уткиагвик”
  • Persian: “بارو، آلاسکا”
  • Persian: “بارو، الاسکا”
  • Persian: “بارو”
  • Persian: “یوتکیاجویک”
  • Polish: “Barrow”
  • Polish: “Utqiaġvik”
  • Portuguese: “Barrow”
  • Portuguese: “Utqiagvik”
  • Romanian: “Barrow, Alaska”
  • Romanian: “Barrow”
  • Romanian: “Utqiaġvik”
  • Russian: “Барроу” (historical)
  • Russian: “Уткиагвик”
  • Serbian: “Бароу” (historical)
  • Serbian: “Уткиагвик”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Barrow, Alaska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Barrow”
  • Sinhala: “අට්කියාග්වික්”
  • Slovak: “Utqiagvik”
  • Slovenian: “Barrow”
  • Slovenian: “Ukpiaġvik”
  • Slovenian: “Utqiagvik”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بارو، آلاسکا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بارو”
  • Spanish: “Barrow (Alaska)”
  • Spanish: “Ukpeaġvik”
  • Spanish: “Ukpiaġvik”
  • Spanish: “Utqiagvik”
  • Spanish: “Utqiaġvik”
  • Swedish: “Barrow”
  • Swedish: “Utqiagvik”
  • 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: “Барроу”
  • Ukrainian: “Мис Барроу” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Уткіагвік”
  • Urdu: “بیرو، الاسکا”
  • Urdu: “بیرو”
  • Uzbek: “Barrow”
  • Vietnamese: “Barrow”
  • Vietnamese: “Ukpeaġvik”
  • Vietnamese: “Ukpiaġvik”
  • Vietnamese: “Utqiagvik”
  • Vietnamese: “Utqiaġvik”
  • Volapük: “Barrow”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Barrow, Alaska”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Barrow”
  • Welsh: “Barrow”
  • Welsh: “Ukpeaġvik”
  • Welsh: “Ukpiaġvik”
  • 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）”

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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 “Utqiagvik”. Photo: Andrei, CC BY 2.0.