Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Map of the United States with Alaska highlighted. Alaska is a state of the United States in the northwest extremity of the North American continent. According to the 2020 United States Census, Alaska is the 3rd least populous state with 733,391 inhabitants [1] but is the largest by land area spanning 570,640.95 square miles (1,477,953.3 km 2). [2]
The Alaska Marine Highway and several other Alaska highways or routes are recognized as "highways" eligible for federal funding by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). [3] The Marine Highway was declared a National Scenic Byway by the FHWA on June 13, 2002; [4] and later declared an All-American Road on September 22, 2005. [5]
Alaska is arguably the least-connected U.S. state in terms of road transportation. Its road system covers a relatively small area of the state, linking the central population centers and the Alaska Highway, the principal route out of the state through Canada. The state capital, Juneau, is not accessible by road, which has spurred several ...
The Pershing Map FDR's hand-drawn map from 1938. The United States government's efforts to construct a national network of highways began on an ad hoc basis with the passage of the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916, which provided $75 million over a five-year period for matching funds to the states for the construction and improvement of highways. [8]
The table at the bottom of this section lists the 100 largest cities and census-designated places in Alaska, in population order. Of Alaska's 2020 U.S. census population figure of 733,391, 16,655 people, or 2.27% of the population, did not live in an incorporated city or census-designated place. [60]
This is a list of places in Alaska, including cities, towns, unincorporated communities, counties, and other recognized places.The list also includes information on the number and names of counties in which the place lies, and its lower and upper zip code bounds, if applicable.
This list generally refers only to the population of individual places within their defined limits at the time of the indicated census. [note 1] Some of these places have since been annexed or merged into other cities. Other places may have expanded their borders due to such annexation or consolidation.
This list of cities, towns, unincorporated communities, counties, and other recognized places in the U.S. state of Alaska also includes information on the number and names of counties in which the place lies, and its lower and upper zip code bounds, if applicable.