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Seward, Alaska Qutalleq
City
Seward seen from the air
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Nickname: "Gateway to the Kenai Fjords"
Motto: "Alaska Starts Here"
Seward, Alaska Location in Alaska
Coordinates: 60°07′28″N 149°26′00″W / 60.12444°N 149.43333°W / 60.12444; -149.43333
Country	United States
State	Alaska
Borough	Kenai Peninsula
Established	1903
Incorporated	June 1, 1912^[1]
Government
• Type	Council-manager
Area ^[2]
• Total	21.89 sq mi (56.69 km²)
• Land	13.96 sq mi (36.16 km²)
• Water	7.93 sq mi (20.54 km²)
Elevation	0 ft (0 m)
Population (2020)^[3]
• Total	2,717
• Density	194.63/sq mi (75.15/km²)
Time zone	UTC−9 (Alaska)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−8 (Alaska)
ZIP code	99664
Area code	907
FIPS code	02-68560
GNIS feature ID	1414598
Website	www.cityofseward.us
Source of coordinates ^[4]

Seward is a city in Alaska. It is on the coast of the Kenai Peninsula. About 2,700 people live there. The town is named after William H. Seward. He was the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. In 1867, he fought for the U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia.

References

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↑ 1996 Alaska Municipal Officials Directory. Juneau: Alaska Municipal League/Alaska Department of Community and Regional Affairs. January 1996. p. 138.
↑ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 29, 2021.
↑ "Seward city, Alaska". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 7, 2023.
↑ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.

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v t e Municipalities and communities of Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States
Borough seat: Soldotna
Cities	Homer Kachemak Kenai Seldovia Seward Soldotna	Kenai Peninsula Borough map
CDPs	Anchor Point Bear Creek Beluga Clam Gulch Cohoe Cooper Landing Crown Point Diamond Ridge Fox River Fritz Creek Funny River Halibut Cove Happy Valley Hope Kalifornsky Kasilof Lowell Point Moose Pass Nanwalek Nikiski Nikolaevsk Ninilchik Point Possession Port Graham Primrose Ridgeway Salamatof Seldovia Village Sterling Sunrise Tyonek
Unincorporated communities	Jakolof Bay Kachemak Selo Razdolna Voznesenka
Ghost town	Portlock

v t e State of Alaska
Juneau (capital)
Topics	History People Government Delegations
Regions	Alaska Peninsula Aleutian Islands Arctic The Bush Interior Kenai Peninsula Mat‑Su Valley North Slope Seward Peninsula Southcentral Southeast Southwest
Largest cities pop. over 25,000	Anchorage Fairbanks Juneau
Smaller cities pop. over 2,000	Bethel Cordova Dillingham Homer Kenai Ketchikan Kodiak Kotzebue Nome North Pole Palmer Petersburg Seward Sitka Soldotna Unalaska Valdez Wasilla Wrangell Utqiaġvik
Boroughs	Aleutians East Anchorage Bristol Bay Denali Fairbanks North Star Haines Juneau Kenai Peninsula Ketchikan Gateway Kodiak Island Lake and Peninsula Matanuska‑Susitna North Slope Northwest Arctic Petersburg Sitka Skagway Wrangell Yakutat Unorganized
Census Areas	Aleutians West Bethel Chugach Copper River Dillingham Hoonah–Angoon Kusilvak Nome Prince of Wales–Hyder Southeast Fairbanks Yukon–Koyukuk

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Six-time winners	Des Moines, Iowa (1949, 1977, 1982, 2003, 2010, 2017)
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