Which is the largest US state? What is the motto of that state? What is the population of that state? And what is the capital of Alaska? Here are some Alaska Fast Facts

  Did you know Alaska is not only the most Northern part of the United States, and the most western, but also the most eastern state? That is because the Aleutian Islands,
(SW Alaska extending in an arc 1700 miles [ 2735 kilometers] SW & W from the Alaska Peninsula)
extend over the international date line. This makes Alaska, the only part of the United States, that extends into the Eastern hemisphere.

Alaska Fast Facts:

Largest Cities: Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Sitka, Soldotna
Nicknames: Last Frontier, Great Land, Land of the Midnight Sun
Capital City: Juneau
Statehood: January 3, 1959 (49th)
Population: 620,000
Motto: North To The Future
Border States: None
Land Area: 663,267 sq. mi., Largest state
Highest Point: Denali,  20,320 ft

Lowest Point: Pacific Ocean, sea level

State Bird: Willow Ptarmigan

State Flower: Forget Me Not (myosotis alpestris)

State Tree: Sitka spruce (picea sitchensis)

State Song: Alaska's Flag (click to hear it)   Click here for history of  Flag

State Web Site: www.state.ak.us


Denali got it's European name "Mount McKinley" during the 1896 Cook Inlet gold stampede and it wasn't until 1980, the name Mount McKinley National Park was officially changed to Denali National Park and Preserve.

Click for Denali National Park, Alaska Forecast


 

 Alaska is BIG!
ALASKA covers 570,373 square miles of land, and an additional 45,000 square miles of water. It's the biggest state in the country and is 1/5 the mass of the continental U.S. 
ALASKA is 2.3 times the size of Texas, 10 times the size of Georgia or Florida; and 499.7 times the size of Rhode Island.
ALASKA has 33,904 miles of coastline and 1/2 the worlds glaciers.

States of the United States of America, sorted by size:
                             Total area
State                            
km²   miles²
Alaska 1,717,854 663,267
Texas 695,621 268,581
California 423,970 163,696
Montana 380,838 147,042
New Mexico 314,915 121,589
Arizona 295,254 113,998
Nevada 286,351 110,561
Colorado 269,601 104,094
Oregon 254,805 98,381
Wyoming 253,348 97,818
Michigan 253,266 97,790
Minnesota 225,365 87,014
Utah 219,887 84,899
Idaho 216,446 83,570
Kansas 213,096 82,277
Nebraska 200,345 77,354
South Dakota 199,731 77,116
Washington 184,665 71,300
North Dakota 183,112 70,700
Oklahoma 181,035 69,898
Missouri 180,533 69,704
Florida 170,304 65,755
Wisconsin 169,639 65,498
Georgia 153,909 59,425
Illinois 149,998 57,914
Iowa 145,743 56,272
New York 141,299 54,556
North Carolina 139,389 53,819
Arkansas 137,732 53,179
Alabama 135,765 52,419
Louisiana 134,264 51,840
Mississippi 125,434 48,430
Pennsylvania 119,283 46,055
Ohio 116,096 44,825
Virginia 110,785 42,774
Tennessee 109,151 42,143
Kentucky 104,659 40,409
Indiana 94,321 36,418
Maine 91,646 35,385
South Carolina 82,932 32,020
West Virginia 62,755 24,230
Maryland 32,133 12,407
Hawaii 28,311 10,931
Massachusetts 27,336 10,555
Vermont 24,901 9,614
New Hampshire 24,216 9,350
New Jersey 22,588 8,721
Connecticut 14,357 5,543
Puerto Rico 13,790 5,324
Delaware 6,447 2,489
Rhode Island 3,144 1,545
Virgin Islands 1,910 737
Guam 541 209
Northern Mariana Islands 477 184
American Samoa 199 77
District of Columbia 177 68.3

                               Land area

Rank State                              km² miles²
1 Alaska 1,481,347 571,951
2 Texas 678,051 261,797
3 California 403,933 155,959
4 Montana 376,979 145,552
5 New Mexico 314,309 121,356
6 Arizona 294,312 113,635
7 Nevada 284,448 109,826
8 Colorado 268,627 103,718
9 Wyoming 251,489 97,105
10 Oregon 248,631 95,997
11 Idaho 214,314 82,747
12 Utah 212,751 82,144
13 Kansas 211,900 81,815
14 Minnesota 206,189 79,610
15 Nebraska 199,099 76,872
16 South Dakota 196,540 75,885
17 North Dakota 178,647 68,976
18 Missouri 178,414 68,886
19 Oklahoma 177,847 68,667
20 Washington 172,348 66,544
21 Michigan 150,504 58,110
22 Georgia 149,976 57,906
23 Iowa 144,701 55,869
24 Illinois 143,961 55,584
25 Wisconsin 140,663 54,310
26 Florida 139,670 53,927
27 Arkansas 134,856 52,068
28 Alabama 131,426 50,744
29 North Carolina 126,161 48,711
30 New York 122,283 47,214
31 Mississippi 121,488 46,907
32 Pennsylvania 116,074 44,817
33 Louisiana 112,825 43,562
34 Tennessee 106,752 41,217
35 Ohio 106,056 40,948
36 Kentucky 102,896 39,728
37 Virginia 102,548 39,594
38 Indiana 92,895 35,867
39 Maine 79,931 30,862
40 South Carolina 77,983 30,109
41 West Virginia 62,361 24,230
42 Maryland 25,314 9,774
43 Vermont 23,956 9,250
44 New Hampshire 23,227 8,968
45 Massachusetts 20,306 7,840
46 New Jersey 19,211 7,417
47 Hawaii 16,635 6,423
48 Connecticut 12,548 4,845
* Puerto Rico 8,870 3,424.73
49 Delaware 6,030 1,954
50 Rhode Island 2,706 1,045
* Guam 541.3 209
* Northern Mariana Islands 477 184.17
* Virgin Islands 346.36 133.73
* American Samoa 199 76.83
* District of Columbia 159 61.4