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Sitka is a unified city-borough in southeast Alaska, on the west side of Baranof Island and the south half of Chichagof Island in the Alexander Archipelago.

Sitka was incorporated as a city on November 5, 1913, became a borough on September 24, 1963, and became a unified municipality on December 2, 1971.

The 2020 census counted 8,458 residents in Sitka, making it the fifth-most populated city in Alaska.

The 2020 census recorded 3,421 households and 4,139 housing units in the city-borough.

With a total area of about 4,811 square miles, Sitka is the largest city by total area in the United States, nearly four times the size of Rhode Island.

Russian explorers settled Old Sitka in 1799 as the Fort of Archangel Michael, and Tlingit warriors destroyed the settlement in June 1802.

After the Russian victory at the Battle of Sitka in October 1804, the settlement was re-established as New Archangel, and in 1808 Sitka became the capital of Russian America.

Sitka was the site of the Alaska Purchase transfer ceremony on October 18, 1867, and served as the U.S. government capital of Alaska until the seat moved to Juneau in 1906.

The Russian Bishop's House, restored by the National Park Service as part of Sitka National Historical Park, and the Cathedral of Saint Michael, originally built in 1848 and rebuilt after a 1966 fire, stand in Sitka.

The Alaska Native Brotherhood was founded in Sitka in 1912, and its hall on Katlian Street dates to 1914.