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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]
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 ...
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.
The U.S. state of Alaska is divided into 19 organized boroughs and 11 census areas in the unorganized borough. Alaska, and the states of Connecticut and Louisiana are the only states that do not call their first-order administrative subdivisions counties (Connecticut uses councils of government and Louisiana uses parishes instead). [1]
Alaska Airlines is the only major airline offering in-state travel with jet service (sometimes in combination cargo and passenger Boeing 737-400s) from Anchorage and Fairbanks to regional hubs like Bethel, Nome, Kotzebue, Dillingham, Kodiak, and other larger communities as well as to major Southeast and Alaska Peninsula communities.
This is a List of rivers in Alaska, which are at least fifth-order according to the Strahler method of stream classification, [1] and an incomplete list of otherwise-notable rivers and streams. Alaska has more than 12,000 rivers, and thousands more streams and creeks. [2] According to United States Geological Survey Geographic Names Information ...
A golf resort development on top of Glassy Mountain in Greenville County exists at 2,760 feet, [38] but it is not considered a community by the Geographic Names Information System, which documents communities in the United States. 5315 feet (1620 m) Custer South Dakota [39] Most of Lead surpasses Custer in elevation [citation needed] 3133 feet ...
Map of the United States with Alaska highlighted. Alaska is a state situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent.According to the 2010 United States Census, Alaska is the 3rd least populous state with 733,391 inhabitants but is the largest by land area spanning 665,384.04 square miles (1,723,336.8 km 2) of land.