Tongass (Russian America)

The Governorate of Tongass (: Тонгасская губерния, Tongasskaya guberniya), commonly known as Tongass (Тонгасс), is a governorate:0:0 of the Alaska:Alaskan Democratic Federative Republic:0. Tongass is located in central Alaska, bordered by Sitka:0:0 to the north, Charlotte:0:0 and New Caledonia:0:0 to the south, and Borealia:0:0 to the east.

The area was originally included in the New Russia Oblast until the 1870s when the area south of the (excluding the ) was organized into the New Caledonia Oblast. During the Alaskan Wars:0:0, the oblast was divided between the newly created Republic of New Albion:0:0 (taking the southern regions that became modern day New Caledonia:0:0) and he Democratic Republic of New Russia:0:0 (taking the areas of modern day inland Tongass). After the formation of the ADFR in 1929, the region was still part of New Russia. It was during the debates of dividing the governorate that lead to the formation of Tongass, which would include the areas once part of New Caledonia and the southernmost islands of the Alexander Archipelago. Tongass was admitted in 1940.

Today, most of the residents of Tongass can trace their ancestry back to (especially  and ).