Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska
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Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska

Administration
Full nameYakutat City and Borough
Official nameYakutat City and Borough
CountryUnited States
StateAlaska
Demography
Total Population808 (2000)

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Yakutat City and Borough ( ) is a unified city-borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2000 census, the population was 808. The name is Tlingit, Yaakwdáat, meaning "the place where canoes rest," but it originally derives from an Eyak name diyaʼqudaʼt and was influenced by the Tlingit word yaakw “canoe, boat”. Besides the original city of Yakutat, described below, the only other significant population center in the borough is the community of Icy Bay, the site of the Icy Bay Airport, in the west-central part of the borough. Yakutat City is the largest city in the United States by area, and the eighth largest city in the world by area.

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Yakutat gold operation seems unlikely - KFSK Tweet this news
KFSK---Yakutat Borough- Manager Skip Ryman says the announcement brought a lot of questions. "What is the operation going to look like if they actually go into the ... - Date : Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:31:29 GMT+00:00

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