Lake and Peninsula Borough (Alaska)
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- Chignik lakes research, 2001(name not given)
- GNIS, Apr. 17, 2001(Lake and Peninsula Borough, civil, Alaska, 57⁰00ʹ02ʺN, 158⁰00ʹ02ʺW)
- Lake and Peninsula Borough online, Apr. 17, 2001(Lake and Peninsula Borough; southwest of Anchorage and located along the Alaska Peninsula; comprised of 17 communities and 1824 residents in an area roughly the size of West Virginia) general facts (incorporated as a Home Rule Borough in April of 1989, a Manager form of government; borough contains 17 communities, six are incorporated as Second Class Cities, the remaining 11 are governed exclusively by Village or Tribal Councils)
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Wikipedia description:
Lake and Peninsula Borough (Russian: Лейк-энд-Пенинсула, Leyk-end-Peninsula) is a borough in the state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,476, down from 1,631 in 2010. The borough seat of King Salmon is located in neighboring Bristol Bay Borough, although is not the seat of that borough. The most populous community in the borough is the census-designated place of Port Alsworth. With an average of 0.017 inhabitants per square kilometre (0.044 inhabitants/sq mi), the Lake and Peninsula Borough is the least densely populated organized county-equivalent in the United States; only the unorganized Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area has a lower density.
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