Nome

Also known as Nome, Alaska

city in Alaska, USA

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Nome is a small city located in western Alaska on the Bering Sea coast. It matters historically as the site of a major gold rush in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and today serves as a regional hub for the surrounding communities and as the finish line for the famous Iditarod dog sled race.

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Official name: Nome
Population: 3699
Area: 55.992198
Elevation: 6
Official website: www.nomealaska.org
Image: Nome Alaska (1).jpg
Households: 336
Dialing code: 907

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postal code: 99762
Commons category: Nome, Alaska
inception: 1898-00-00
water as percent of area: 41.5588
P8168: Kord
water area: 23.269658
per capita income: 26691
mean age: 31.6
native label: Sitŋasuaq

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Nome (/ˈnoʊm/; Inupiaq: Sitŋasuaq, pronounced [sitŋɐsuɑq], also Sitŋazuaq, Siqnazuaq) is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of the US state of Alaska. The city is located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on the Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. It had a population of 3,699 in 2020, up from 3,598 in 2010. Nome was incorporated on April 9, 1901. It was once the most populous city in Alaska. Nome lies within the region of the Bering Straits Native Corporation, which is headquartered in Nome.

Prior to being settled by non-indigenous people, the area around Nome was home to Iñupiat natives. The area came to world attention in 1898, when three Nordic-Americans discovered gold on the ocean shores of Nome, prompting the Nome Gold Rush. Within a year, the area became popular among miners of European descent, who built and incorporated the city. Nome quickly reached a population of more than 10,000. Gold mining supported this population into the early 1900s, but the city's population had fallen considerably by 1910.