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Tanana ( /ˈtænənɑː/) (Hohudodetlaatl Denh in Koyukon) is a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. At the 2000 census the population was 308. It is formerly known as Clachotin. Jetté (1910) records the Koyukon Athabascan name for the village as Hohudodetlaatl Denh, literally, ‘where the area has been chopped’. Multiple residents are chronicled in the 2012 Discovery Channel TV series Yukon Men. Almost 80% of the town’s population are Native Americans, mostly Athabaskan.
Tanana is located at the confluence of the Tanana and Yukon Rivers 65°10′14″N 152°4′33″W / 65.17056°N 152.07583°W / 65.17056; -152.07583 (65.170544, -152.075883).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 15.6 square miles (40 km), of which, 11.6 square miles (30 km) of it is land and 4.0 square miles (10 km) of it (25.80%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 308 people, 121 households, and 68 families residing in the city. The population density…
