sitka

     

The City an Borough of Sitka is a unified city-borough located on the west side of Baranof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean (part of the Alaska Panhandle), in the U.S. state of Alaska. Sitka is the state's fourth-largest city by population and the largest city in the United States by area.

Trivia about sitka

  • When the U.S. bought Alaska in 1867, the transfer ceremony was held in this "si"ty
  • This Alaskan city shares it name with a type of spruce
  • This southeastern Alaskan town was once the territorial capital
  • Until 1867 it was the capital of Russian America