The City and Borough of Wrangell is a borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2010 census the population was 2,369. Incorporated as a Unified Home Rule Borough on May 30, 2008, Wrangell was previously a city in the Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area). Its Tlingit name is ?aachx?aana.�ak?w. The Tlingit people residing in the Wrangell area, who were there centuries before Europeans, call themselves the Shtax?h�en ?w�an after the nearby Stikine River. Alternately they use the autonym Shx?�t ?w�an, where the meaning of shx?�t is unknown.The central part of Wrangell is located at 56�28?15?N 132�22?36?W? / ?56.47083�N 132.37667�W? / 56.47083; -132.37667, in the northwest corner of Wrangell Island, whereas the borough now encompasses the entire eastern half of the former Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area, in addition to the area around Meyers Chuck, which was formerly in the Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area.