List of Counties in Alaska

Points of Interest

List of Towns in Alaska

Capital: Juneau

Largest city: Anchorage

Highest point: Mount McKinley: 20,320 ft

Lowest point: Pacific Ocean: 0 ft

Alaska is the largest US state

Approximately 65% of Alaska is owned and managed by the U.S. federal government as public lands

Barrow, Alaska is the northernmost city in the United States

Eskimo ice cream, which can consist of reindeer fat, seal oil, dried fish meat and local berries.

Most cities, towns and villages in the state do not have road or highway access; the only modes of access involve travel by air, river, or the sea.

Alaska is not divided into counties, as most of the other U.S. states, but it is divided into boroughs

State of Alaska

About Alaska

Area code 907 covers the entire state of Alaska, except for the small southeastern Alaska community of Hyder, Alaska, which uses the 250 area code of neighboring Stewart, British Columbia.

The U.S. Senate approved the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, for $7.2 million at about two cents per acre

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