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List of neighborhoods of Anchorage, Alaska

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ6630349 ↗
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The following is a list of neighborhoods in the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, United States. The "Anchorage Bowl" is the area normally thought of simply as Anchorage. Other areas within the Municipality are located along the Glenn and Seward highways running north and south from Anchorage respectively. These are separate communities, some of which were previously separate municipalities before merging into the unified Anchorage municipal government in 1975. Some communities are up to 50 miles (80 km) from downtown Anchorage.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of neighborhoods of Anchorage, Alaska” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.