Place:Selawik, Northwest Arctic, Alaska, United States

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NameSelawik
TypeCity
Coordinates66.597°N 160.014°W
Located inNorthwest Arctic, Alaska, United States
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Selawik (Iñupiaq: Siiḷivik or Akuliġaq; ) is a city in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 829, up from 772 in 2000.

Selawik comes from , which means "place of sheefish" in Inupiaq.

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A Lt. Lavrenty Zagoskin of the Imperial Russian Navy first reported the village in the 1840s as "Chilivik." In his census study in 1880, Ivan Petrof counted 100 "Selawigamute" people.

Around 1908, the village site had a small wooden schoolhouse and church. The village now has expanded across the Selawik River onto three banks, linked by bridges.

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