Whittier
Whittier is a small town in Alaska that is famous because all of its 272 residents live in one building.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 272 residents
- Description: city in the Chugach Census Area, Alaska, United States
- Also known as: “Whittier, AK” and “Whittier, Alaska”
- Postal code: 99693
Places of Interest
Highlights include Whittier Terminal Depot and Buckner Building.
Whittier Terminal Depot
Railway station
The Whittier HAP Depot is an Alaska Railroad passenger stop in Whittier, Alaska. The passenger stop is located along a siding in Whittier, immediately west of the railroad bridge crossing Whittier Creek at Alaska Railroad milepost 1.2.
Buckner Building
Ruins
Photo: UED77, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Buckner Building is an abandoned former U.S. military building in Whittier, Alaska, on the Western edge of the Prince William Sound.
Begich Towers
Apartment building
Photo: Jessica Spengler, CC BY 2.0.
The Begich Towers Condominium is a building in the small American city of Whittier, Alaska. The structure is the residence of nearly the entire population of the city and home to many of its public facilities; this has earned Whittier the nickname of "town under one roof".
Whittier
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Chugach, Alaska, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
60.7731° or 60° 46′ 23″ northLongitude
-148.6839° or 148° 41′ 2″ westPopulation
272Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)United Nations Location Code
US WQFOpen location code
93GHQ8F8+6COpenStreetMap ID
node 150917129OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Mari—“Whittier” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Whittier, Alaska”
- Albanian: “Whittier”
- Arabic: “ويتير”
- Armenian: “Ուիթիեր”
- Basque: “Whittier”
- Belarusian: “Уітыер”
- Bosnian: “Whittier”
- Bulgarian: “Уитиър”
- Catalan: “Whittier”
- Cebuano: “Whittier”
- Central Kurdish: “وایتێر، ئالاسکا”
- Central Kurdish: “وایتێر”
- Chechen: “Виттиер”
- Chinese: “Whittier”
- Chinese: “惠蒂尔”
- Czech: “Whittier”
- Danish: “Whittier”
- Dutch: “Whittier”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ويتير”
- Esperanto: “Whittier”
- Finnish: “Whittier”
- French: “Whittier”
- German: “Whittier”
- Gilaki: “ویتیر”
- Haitian: “Whittier”
- Hebrew: “ויטייר”
- Icelandic: “Whittier”
- Irish: “Whittier”
- Italian: “Whittier”
- Japanese: “ウィッター”
- Japanese: “ウィッティア”
- Kazakh: “Уиттиер”
- Korean: “휘티어”
- Ladin: “Whittier”
- Macedonian: “Витиер”
- Malagasy: “Whittier, Alaska”
- Malagasy: “Whittier”
- Malayalam: “വിറ്റിയർ, അലാസ്ക”
- Malayalam: “വിറ്റിയർ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Whittier”
- Newari: “व्हिटियर (अलास्का)”
- Newari: “व्हिटियर, अलास्का”
- Newari: “व्हिटियर”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Whittier”
- Norwegian: “Whittier”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Whittier”
- Persian: “ویتیر، آلاسکا”
- Persian: “ویتیر، الاسکا”
- Persian: “ویتیر”
- Polish: “Whittier”
- Portuguese: “Whittier”
- Romanian: “Whittier, Alaska”
- Romanian: “Whittier”
- Russian: “Уиттиер”
- Russian: “Уиттьер”
- Serbian: “Витијер”
- Serbian: “Витир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Whittier, Alaska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Whittier”
- Slovak: “Whittier”
- South Azerbaijani: “ویتیر، آلاسکا”
- South Azerbaijani: “ویتیر”
- Spanish: “Whittier (Alaska)”
- Spanish: “Whittier”
- Swedish: “Whittier, Alaska”
- Swedish: “Whittier”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи витир”
- Talysh: “Vittier”
- Tatar: “Виттиер”
- Turkish: “Whittier, Alaska”
- Turkish: “Whittier”
- Ukrainian: “Віттіер”
- Uzbek: “Whittier”
- Volapük: “Whittier”
- Western Mari: “Уиттиер”
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