Wrangell is a city and borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. At the 2000 census the population was 2,308.Its Tlingit name is Ḵaachx̱aana.áakʼw (“Ḵaachx̱an’s Little Lake” with áa-kʼw ‘lake-diminutive’), and the Tlingit people residing in the Wrangell area call themselves the Shtaxʼhéen Ḵwáan after the nearby Stikine River, or alternately Shxʼát Ḵwáan where the meaning of shxʼát is unknown.

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