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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alaska
- Census area
- Nome
- Incorporated
- October 28, 1970
- Mayor
- Cassandra Ahkvaluk
- State senator
- Donny Olson ( D )
- State rep
- Neal Foster (D)
- Total
- 2.43 sq mi (6.30 km )
- Land
- 2.43 sq mi (6.30 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 1,621 ft (494 m)
- Density
- 33.7/sq mi (13.02/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-09:00 ( AKST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-08:00 ( AKDT )
- Fips code
- 02-19060
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Encyclopedic overview
Drone photo, 2018
Diomede (Inupiaq: Iŋaliq; Russian: Диомид, romanized: Diomid) is an incorporated island city in the U.S. state of Alaska. Little Diomede Island is the smaller of the two Diomede Islands that are located in the middle of the Bering Strait; the larger of the two islands, Big Diomede Island, is part of Russia. As of 2020, the population of Diomede is 82.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Diomede” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.