Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska
The Northwest Arctic Borough is a district in the state of Alaska to the United States of America. Here live 7523 inhabitants. The seat of the Borough Administration is in Kotzebue.
Geography
The district has an area of 105 573 square kilometers, which is about as large as one-third of Germany. Of these, 99 976 square kilometers of land and 12,579 square kilometers ( 11.93 percent) of water.
Reserves
Multiple protection areas are situated wholly or partly in the area of Northwest Arctic Boroughs:
- Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge ( part of the Chukchi Sea Unit)
- Bering Land Bridge National Preserve ( part)
- Cape Krusenstern National Monument
- Gates -of -the- Arctic National Park (partly)
- Kobuk Valley National Park
- Koyukuk National Wildlife Refuge ( part)
- Noatak National Preserve ( part)
- Selawik National Wildlife Refuge ( part)