Place:Seward, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, United States

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NameSeward
TypeCity
Coordinates60.124°N 149.433°W
Located inKenai Peninsula, Alaska, United States
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Seward (Alutiiq: ; Dena'ina: Tl'ubugh) is an incorporated home rule city in Alaska, United States. Located on Resurrection Bay, a fjord of the Gulf of Alaska on the Kenai Peninsula, Seward is situated on Alaska's southern coast, approximately by road from Alaska's largest city, Anchorage.

With a population of 2,717 people as of the 2020 census, 

Seward is the fourth-largest city in the Kenai Peninsula Borough, behind Kenai, Homer, and the borough seat of Soldotna. The city is named for former U.S.A Secretary of State William H. Seward, who orchestrated the United States' purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867 while serving in this position as part of President Andrew Johnson's administration.

Seward is the southern terminus of the Alaska Railroad and the historic starting point of the original Iditarod Trail to Interior Alaska, with Mile 0 of the trail marked on the shoreline at the southern end of town.

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