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Utqiagvik is an incorporated city and the borough seat and largest city of the North Slope Borough, on Alaska's Arctic coast.

Utqiagvik is the northernmost city in the United States, located north of the Arctic Circle near Point Barrow, and its motto is "The Northernmost American City."

The Iñupiat have lived at Utqiagvik for more than 1,500 years, and the Iñupiaq name refers to a place for gathering wild roots, from utqiq, the Eskimo potato.

The city was incorporated as a first-class city under the name Barrow in 1958.

The 2020 census counted 4,927 residents in Utqiagvik, up from 4,212 in 2010, making it the 12th-most populous city in Alaska.

A resident referendum approved on October 6, 2016 formally renamed the city from Barrow to Utqiaġvik on December 1, 2016.

Utqiagvik is a "damp" community that prohibits the sale of alcohol.

The Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport is named for the two aviators killed in a plane crash south of the city in 1935.

Utqiagvik is home to Iḷisaġvik College and the Iñupiat Heritage Center, which includes the Tuzzy Consortium Library.

In 1988, three gray whales trapped in the ice near Utqiagvik were freed in Operation Breakthrough, an event later dramatized in the film Big Miracle.