• Population: 46,759
  
  
• Incorporation: 2nd Class Borough (1964)
  
  
• Communities within the Borough: Anchor Point, Clam Gulch, Cohoe, Cooper Landing, Crown Point, Fox River, Fritz Creek, Halibut Cove, Happy Valley, Homer, Hope, Jakolof Bay, Kachemak, Kalifonsky, Kasilof, Kenai, Moose Pass, Nanwalek, Nikiski, Nikolaevsk, Ninilchik, Port Graham, Primrose, Ridgeway, Salamatof, Seldovia, Seward, Soldotna, Sterling, and Tyonek.
  
  
• Borough Sales Tax: 2% (City taxes add additional 1% to 3%)\Physical Layout: 16,079 sq. miles land / 5,585 sq. miles water.
  
  
• Climate: Winter 4 degrees to 22 degrees; Summer 46 degrees to 65 degrees. Average annual precipitation is 20 inches.
  
  
• Industries: Tourism, oil production, commercial fishing (1,676 borough residents hold commercial fishing permits), fish processing, government, timber and lumber, agriculture, transportation services, construction and retail trade.
  
  
• Access: Located South of Anchorage accessible via the Sterling Highway, scheduled and charter airlines (Kenai Airport), ocean cruise lines and the The Alaska Railroad in Seward and the Alaska Marine Highway Ferry in Homer.

UAA - Kenai Peninsula College
KPC and the cities of Kenai, Soldotna, and Homer are located on the beautiful Kenai Peninsula in South-central Alaska and are bordered by the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and Kachemak Bay. Despite its northern latitude, the Kenai Peninsula has surprisingly mild winters and cool, comfortable summers. Located on 364 wooded acres between Kenai and Soldotna, the main campus includes a vocational building, classrooms, library, laboratories, media center, bookstore, a snack bar and commons area.

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• Kenai Peninsula Borough
  The Kenai Peninsula Borough's web site is designed to be helpful and informative to both the first time visitor to the borough and our longtime borough residents. If you're a visitor then surf our site to learn more about this wonderful place we call home, Alaska's Kenai Peninsula.
  
  
• Peninsula Clarion
  The Peninsula Clarion newspaper in Kenai, Alaska.
  
  
• Anchorage Daily News
  Anchorage, Alaska Daily Newspaper Online
  
  
• Kenai River Center - Pacific Salmon the Alaska Story
  They offer a colorful and informative magazine includes a description of the life cycle of the five pacific salmon species and their habitat requirements. It also contains interesting and not too well known facts about salmon, such as the fact that salmon can swim as fast as 14 miles per hour! There is also information about the health of Alaska's salmon stocks, some history about salmon fishing in Alaska as well as information about efforts to restore and protect salmon habitat on the Kenai River and other salmon streams within Alaska. The book is loaded with beautiful full color photographs and art work. To get your free copy you can contact the Kenai River Center at (907) 260-4882 or the Kenai River Sportfishing Association at (907) 262-8588.
  
  
• Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game (South Central Region)
  Alaska's Fish and Wildlife Safeguard pays cash for information on poachers. How can you help? If you see or hear of a fish or wildlife violation, report it. Call (800) 478-3377, toll-free.
  
  
• Challenger Learning Center:
  Fill those long summer days with several camps and workshops offered by the Challenger Learning Center of Alaska! Become a Rocket Scientist, a Robotics Engineer, an Aviator, or just more knowledgeable about the world in which we live!!
  
  
• Alaska Dog Sledding:
  Alaska adventure travel and dog mushing trips.
  
  
• Public Use Cabins (State of Alaska - Kenai Peninsula)
  With Locations and availability
  
  
• Larry Kaniut:
  is author to numerous popular books dealing with Alaska bear encounters. In each book Larry captures man's struggle for survival in a bear's jaws. In Alaska this life or death situation includes black, grizzly, brown-grizzly and polar bears. Larry Kaniut chronicles bear-man encounters from false charge through fatality, interviewing not only the victim of the bear's wrath, but also the rescuer, spouse, family member and doctor.
  
  
• Alaska Sex Offender Program
  ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY Sex Offender Registration Central Registry

• Alaska State Agencies Directory
  Find State agencies and lots of information about our state on the Official Alaska State WEB pages.