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The State Park system began in 1970 with the creation of Denali State Park, Chugach State Park and Kachemak Bay State Park, three of the largest and still most popular parks in the state system. Wood-Tikchik State Park is the largest state park in the United States, comprising some 15% of total state park land in the nation. The division ...
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]
An enlargeable map of the state of Alaska. ... National parks in Alaska ... State capital of Alaska: Juneau; Largest city in Alaska: ...
Fairbanks is the largest city in the interior region of Alaska and the second largest in the state. The 2020 census put the population of the city proper at 32,515 [ 7 ] and the population of the Fairbanks North Star Borough at 95,655, [ 7 ] making it the second most populous metropolitan area in Alaska after Anchorage .
Juneau was the largest city in Alaska during the inter-war years, passing Fairbanks in population by the 1920 census. Anchorage became the largest city in terms of population in 1950 . Selection as capital
City/Metropolitan area Country Managing authority Size in acres Size in hectares Description 1 Chugach State Park: Anchorage: United States Alaska State Parks: 495,199.2 200,400.0 Established in 1970, the state park is the largest urban park in the world located entirely within its metropolitan area, and the third largest state park in the ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... State parks of Alaska (39 P) Z. Zoos in Alaska (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Parks in Alaska"
Lake Clark, the largest, is the sixth largest lake in Alaska, 860 feet (260 m) deep and 42 miles (68 km) long. [13] The park includes a variety of unrelated rocks. The core of the Chigmit Mountains is a granite pluton forced upwards [14] by the collision of the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.