The largest by area and 3rd least populous in the United of States

  • State capital: Juneau

  • The most populous city: Anchorage

  • Population: 736 thousand (2020 U.S. Census Bureau)

  • History: officially proclaimed a state on January 3, 1959

  • Nick name: The Last Frontier

  • Geology:

    • The only non-contiguous U.S. state on continental North America

    • Bordered by Canada by east, Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean to the south and southwest, the Berning Sea, Bering Strait, and Chukchi Sea to the west, and the Arctic Ocean to the north

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State of Alaska



Major Cities | National Park System (NPS) Units

Major Cities

Anchorage

Fairbanks

Juneau

Homer

Seward

Whittier

Valdez

Talkeetna

National Park

Denali 

Gates of the Arctic

Glacier Bay

Katmai

Kenai Fjords

Kobuk Valley

Lake Clark

Wrangell-St Elias 

National Monument

Aniakchak

Cape Krusenstern

National Wild & Scenic Rivers

Alagnak

Nationa Historical Park

Klondike Gold Rush

Sitka

National Preserve

Noatak

Aniakchak

Yukon-Charley Rivers

Bering Land Bridge

Denali

Gates of the Arctic

Glacier Bay

Katmai

Lake Clark

Wrangell-St Elias

National Wildlife Refuges

Alaska Maritime

Alaska Peninsula

Arctic

Becharof

Innoko

Izembek

Kanuti

Kenai

Kodiak

Koyukuk

Nowitna

Selawik

Tetlin

Togiak

Yukon Delta

Yukon Flats