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Egegik is an incorporated city in Lake and Peninsula Borough, on the eastern shore of Bristol Bay at Egegik Bay.

Egegik incorporated as a city in 1995.

The 2020 census counted just 39 residents in Egegik, down sharply from 109 in 2010, a decline of 64.2 percent, living in 24 households.

The median age in Egegik in 2020 was 43.5 years, and 59.0 percent of residents were American Indian and Alaska Native while 38.5 percent were White.

The city sits on a high bluff along the southern shore of the Egegik River at the upper extent of Egegik Bay.

Its name in Central Yupik is Igyagiiq, and in Sugpiaq it is Igya'iq or Igyagiq.

Egegik first appeared on the 1880 U.S. Census as the unincorporated Inuit village of Igagik, and it returned under the name Egegik in 1920.

Egegik has long been home to cannery operations, and an Alaska Packers Association cannery operated there in 1917.

The city covers about 128.5 square miles, of which only about 29.6 square miles is land and about 99 square miles is water, at an elevation of 13 feet.

Of the 243 housing units counted in Egegik in the 2020 census, 90.1 percent were vacant.