The
City and Borough of Yakutat (, ) (
Tlingit:
Yaakwdáat) is a
borough in the
U.S. state of
Alaska. Incorporated as a non-unified Home Rule Borough on September 22, 1992, Yakutat was previously a city in the Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon Census Area (afterwards renamed the
Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area). The name is
Tlingit,
Yaakwdáat ("the place where canoes rest") but it originally derives from an
Eyak name
diya'quda't and was influenced by the Tlingit word
yaakw ("canoe, boat").