General Information
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Alaska General Information |
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State motto |
North to the Future |
| State song | Alaska’s Flag |
| Nicknames | “The Last Frontier,” “Land of the Midnight Sun,” “Seward’s Folly,” “Seward’s Icebox” |
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Statehood |
January 3, 1959 (49th state) |
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Capital |
Juneau |
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Largest city |
Anchorage |
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Area (1st in USA) |
663,268 sq mi (1,717,854 km2) |
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Dimensions |
2,261 miles (3,639 km) wide by 1,420 miles (2,285 km) long |
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Water |
13.77% |
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Population (47th in USA) |
722,718 (2011 estimate) |
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Population Density (50th in USA) |
1.26/sq mi (0.49/km2) |
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Highest point |
Mount McKinley: 20,320 ft (6194 m) |
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Lowest point |
N/A (coastline at sea level) |
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Spoken languages |
English 89.7%, Native 5.2%, Spanish 2.9% |
| State flower | Forget-me-not (1917) |
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State marine mammal | Bowhead Whale (1983) |
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| State bird | Willow Ptarmigan (1955) |
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State fossil | Woolly Mammoth (1986) |
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| State tree | Sitka Spruce (1962) |
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State insect | Four-spot skimmer dragonfly (1995) |
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| State fish | King Salmon (1962) |
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State land mammal | Moose (1998) |
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| State mineral | Gold (1968) |
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State dog | Alaskan Malamute (2010) |
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| State gem | Jade (1968) |
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State soil | Tanana |
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| State sport | Mushing (1972) |
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