Wrangell is located on the northern tip of Wrangell Island, an island in the Alaska Panhandle.
 It is 155 miles (250 km) south of the Alaskan capital of Juneau.
 It is across the narrow Zimovia Strait from the mouth of the Stikine River on the Alaska mainland.
The town is named after the island, which was named after Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel, a Russian explorer and the administrator of the Russian-American Company from 1830 to 1835.

Per the 2010 United States Census, the borough has a total area of 3,462 square miles (8,970 km²), of which 2,541 square miles (6,580 km²) is land and 921 square miles (2,390 km²) is water.

This is larger than the former City of Wrangell, which as of the 2000 census had a total area of 70.844 square miles (183.5 km²), of which 45.278 square miles (117.27 km²) was land and 25.566 square miles (66.2 km²) was water.
Wrangell is located on the northern tip of Wrangell Island, an island in the Alaska Panhandle.  It is 155 miles (250 km) south of the Alaskan capital of Juneau.  It is across the narrow Zimovia Strait from the mouth of the Stikine River on the Alaska mainland. The town is named after the island, which was named after Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel, a Russian explorer and the administrator of the Russian-American Company from 1830 to 1835.
Per the 2010 United States Census, the borough has a total area of 3,462 square miles (8,970 km²), of which 2,541 square miles (6,580 km²) is land and 921 square miles (2,390 km²) is water.
This is larger than the former City of Wrangell, which as of the 2000 census had a total area of 70.844 square miles (183.5 km²), of which 45.278 square miles (117.27 km²) was land and 25.566 square miles (66.2 km²) was water.
Wrangell, Alaska