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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]
British Royal Navy officers came to the area to explore and map the Arctic coastline of North America. The US acquired Alaska in 1867 by purchasing it from Russia. The United States Army established a meteorological and magnetic research station at Utqiagvik in 1881. [19] In 1888, a Presbyterian church was built by United States missionaries at ...
city-borough) Unified Home Rule: 1964/1975: Anchorage Borough formed in 1964, merged with city in 1975 to form unified city-borough: Derived from the presence of a safe place to anchor and unload supplies for construction of the Alaska Railroad c. 1913, thereby creating a community. 167.59 286,075: 1,707 sq mi (4,421 km 2) Bristol Bay Borough ...
Whittier is a city at the head of the Passage Canal in the U.S. state of Alaska, about 58 miles (93 km) southeast of Anchorage. [4] The city is within the Chugach Census Area, one of the two entities established in 2019 when the former Valdez–Cordova Census Area was dissolved.
An aerial view of Nome, Alaska, in July 2006. Nome is located at (64.503889, −165.399444 According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 21.6 square miles (56 km 2), of which 12.5 square miles (32 km 2) is land and 9.1 square miles (23.6 km 2) (41.99%) is water.
It is 33 miles (53 km) north of the Arctic Circle on Alaska's western coast. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 28.7 square miles (74 km 2), of which 27.0 square miles (70 km 2) is land, and 1.6 square miles (4.1 km 2), or 5.76%, is water.
Shishmaref (/ ˈ ʃ ɪ ʃ m ə r ɛ f / SHISH-mə-ref; [4] Inupiaq: Qigiqtaq, IPA: or Kigiqtaq; Russian: Шишмарёв, IPA: [ʂɨʂmɐˈrʲɵf]) is a city [5] [6] in the Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States. It is located on Sarichef Island in the Chukchi Sea, just north of the Bering Strait and five miles from the
Susitna North is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is part of the Anchorage, Alaska Metropolitan Statistical Area . The population was 1,564 at the 2020 census , up from 1,260 in 2010. [ 2 ]