Alaska

	Facts and Figures	Land Stats
	Statehood Jan 3, 1959 (49th state) Capital Juneau Largest Cities (by population) Anchorage, Juneau, Fairbanks, Sitka, Ketchikan, Kenai, Kodiak, Bethel, Wasilla and Barrow Origin of Name It's a Russian version of an Aleutian Indian name, Alyeska, meaning peninsula, or great land. Population 643,786 (47th)	Area 656,425 sq miles (1st) Bordering States None Number of Counties 16 boroughs and 11 geographical census areas, Largest Borough (by population) Anchorage, 260,283 Highest Point Mt. McKinley, 20,320 ft Lowest Point Pacific Ocean, sea level Motto "North to the Future"

Did You Know:

That of the 35 million people living in California, over 8 million were not born in the United States

That the population of California is greater that the population of all the other states in the Mountain and Pacific time zones combined.

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