Shishmaref
Shishmaref is a city in the Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States. It is located on Sarichef Island in the Chukchi Sea, just north of the Bering Strait and five miles from the mainland.Notable Places in the Area
Shishmaref Airport
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Shishmaref Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile south of the central business district of Shishmaref, a village in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.
Shishmaref
- Type: Village with 562 residents
- Description: city and village in the Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States
- Postal code: 99772
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Nome, Alaska, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
66.25641° or 66° 15' 23" northLongitude
-166.06293° or 166° 3' 47" westPopulation
562Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)IATA airport code
SHHUnited Nations Location Code
US SHHOpen Location Code
92RM7W4P+HROpenStreetMap ID
node 150921240OpenStreetMap Feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
5874015Wikidata ID
Q79723Shishmaref Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Albanian: Shishmaref, Alaska
- Arabic: شيشماريف
- Basque: Shishmaref
- Catalan: Shishmaref
- Cebuano: Shishmaref
- Chamorro: Shishmaref
- Chechen: Шишмарьов (Аляска)
- Chechen: Шишмарьов
- Chinese: Shishmaref
- Chinese: 希什马廖夫
- Czech: Shishmaref
- Danish: Shishmaref
- Dutch: Shishmaref
- Egyptian Arabic: شيشماريف
- English: Shishmaref, AK
- English: Shishmaref, Alaska
- French: Shishmaref
- German: Shishmaref
- Haitian: Shishmaref
- Hungarian: Shishmaref
- Indonesian: Shishmaref, Alaska
- Inuktitut: ᕿᒋᖅᑕᖅ
- Inupiaq: Qiġiqtaq
- Irish: Shishmaref
- Italian: Shishmaref
- Japanese: シシュマレフ
- Japanese: シュシュマレフ
- Korean: 쉬쉬메어프
- Korean: 시쉬마레프
- Korean: 시슈머레프
- Ladin: Shishmaref (Alaska)
- Ladin: Shishmaref
- Malagasy: Shishmaref, Alaska
- Malayalam: ശിഷ്മാരെഫ്, അലാസ്ക
- Min Nan Chinese: Shishmaref
- Nepali: शिश्मारेफ, अलास्का
- Newari: शिश्मारेफ (अलास्का)
- Newari: शिश्मारेफ, अलास्का
- Newari: शिश्मारेफ
- Norwegian: Shishmaref
- Norwegian Bokmål: Shishmaref
- Occitan (post 1500): Shishmaref
- Persian: شیشمارف، آلاسکا
- Persian: شیشمارف، الاسکا
- Polish: Shishmaref
- Portuguese: Shishmaref
- Russian: Шишмарёв
- Serbian: Shishmaref, Alaska
- Serbian: Шишмареф
- Serbo-Croatian: Shishmaref, Alaska
- Slovak: Shishmaref
- South Azerbaijani: شیشمارف، آلاسکا
- Spanish: Shishmaref
- Spanish: Shishmaref (Alaska)
- Tatar: Шишмарьов (Аляска)
- Tatar: Шишмарьов
- Turkish: Shishmaref, Alaska
- Turkish: Shishmaref
- Ukrainian: Шишмарьов
- Uzbek: Shishmaref
- Volapük: Shishmaref
- Western Mari: Шишмареф
- Qigiqtaq
- Shismaref
In the Area
- American Lutheran ChurchChurch
- Native Village of Shishmaref OfficeTown hall
- Community CenterCommunity centre
- Village Public Safety OfficerPolice station
- Shishmaref Post OfficePost office
- City HallTown hall
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Shishmaref. Photo: Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, CC BY 2.0.