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Alaska is the largest U.S. state by area, comprising more total area than the following three largest states of Texas, California, and Montana combined, and is the sixth-largest subnational division in the world.
With an area of 1,717,856 sq. km, Alaska is the largest and the 3 rd least populous state in the USA. Located in the extreme southeastern part of the state, at the base of Mount Juneau on the Gastineau Channel is Juneau – the capital city of Alaska.
The area of Alaska is 18% of the area of the United States and equivalent to 21% of the area of the contiguous United States. The second largest state, Texas, has only 40% of the total area of the largest state, Alaska. Rhode Island is the smallest state by total area and land area.
Indeed, Alaska has an immense area and a great variety of physical characteristics. Aside from its mainland peninsula, the state includes about 15,000 square miles (38,800 square km) of fjords and inlets and about 34,000 miles (54,400 km) of indented tidal coastline.
Area. The state covers an area of 1,723,337 km² (665,384 sq mi) [2] [3] and is the largest of all US states. By comparison, Alaska is three times the size of the Iberian Peninsula, compared to other US states, Alaska is 2.5 times the size of Texas, and New Jersey would fit in 76 times.
Alaska is the largest state in the United States in terms of land area at 570,380 square miles (1,477,300 km 2), over twice (roughly 2.47 times) as large as Texas, the next largest state, and is the seventh largest country subdivision in the world, and the third largest in North America, about 20.4% smaller than Denmark's autonomous country of ...
Area: 663,268 sq mi (1,717,856 sq km). Population: ~ 750,000. Largest cities: Anchorage, Fairbanks, Kenai, Kodiak, Bethel, Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan, Wasilla, Palmer, Homer. Abbreviations: AK. National parks: Glacier Bay, Katmai, Kenai Fjords, Lake Clark, Wrangell-St Elias, Denali, Kobuk Valley, Gates of the Arctic. Google Map of Alaska