Mertarvik, Alaska

Mertarvik (Mug-TUG-vik; Central Yupik: Mertarvik [məg'təgvɪk]) is a village in the Bethel Census Area, Alaska. In 2019, the first residents from the town of Newtok, which is eroding, began to arrive. By 2024, all Newtok residents had moved to Mertarvik.

As of the 2020 Census, 99 people lived there. In 2020, the State of Alaska had not sent voting primary forms to the village because of how new it was.

In 2025, much of the infrastructure already started failing, due to lack of federal involvement and dismissal of Mertarvik's specific needs.

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