Quick facts about Alaska

• Location: See map on the right.
• Size⁽¹⁾: 571,951 square miles. Alaska is by far the largest state in the United States. The next smaller state is Texas at less than half its size.
• Population⁽²⁾: 663,661 people. Alaska is the 47th most populous state. The next more populous state is South Dakota and the next less populous state is North Dakota.
• Population Density: 1.16 people per square mile. Every other state in the United States has a higher population density than Alaska. The next more densely populated state is Wyoming which has four times more people per square mile.
• Bordering States: Alaska does not shares a border with any other states. Its entire border is with Canada.
• Admission to the Union: January 3, 1959. Alaska was the 49th state admitted to the Union, after Arizona and before Hawaii.
• Capital: Juneau.
• Highest Point: 20,320 feet at Mount McKinley (Denali). See SummitPost's Mount McKinley (Denali) page.
• Lowest Point: Sea Level at the Pacific Ocean.
• Government website: State of Alaska Home Page.
• Official Tourism website: TravelAlaska.com.
• Still not enough? See Wikipedia's Alaska page.

Glacier Bay National Park

Interesting Alaska borough trivia

• Alaska is one of only two states that does not have counties. Alaska has boroughs (and Louisiana has Parishes).
• It also has one very large Unorganized Borough administered directly by the state that is broken into eleven named Census Areas. The Unorganized Borough, when combined, encompasses the largest "county-equivalent" jurisdiction in the United States at 330,074 square miles.
• Juneau City & Borough has no outside road access even though the City of Juneau is part of mainland North America. For more information and an explanation see my Juneau page.

Boroughs in Alaska

1. Aleutians East: Hawaii is Closer than you Think
2. Aleutians West Census Area
3. Anchorage (Municipality of): Largest borough population in Alaska (260,283 people in 2000 Census); Midnight Sun in Anchorage; Glacier Brewhouse
4. Bethel Census Area
5. Bristol Bay: Smallest borough in Alaska (505 square miles).
6. Denali
7. Dillingham Census Area
8. Fairbanks North Star: Twelve Mile House
9. Haines
10. Juneau: Downtown Juneau; Mendenhall Glacier and Environs; Mendenhall River Rafting; "Out the Road"; Panoramic Views of the City of Juneau; Perseverance Trail; The Renowned Alaskan Brewery; Various Points Around Juneau
11. Kenai Peninsula
12. Ketchikan Gateway
13. Kodiak Island
14. Lake and Peninsula
15. Matanuska-Susitna: Dear Wasilla
16. Nome Census Area
17. North Slope: Largest borough in Alaska and largest "county" in the United States (94,763 square miles -- see note above about the Unorganized Borough though); A Town Named Deadhorse.
18. Northwest Arctic
19. Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area
20. Sitka: Points of Interest; Sitka National Historical Park; Somewhere Between Juneau and Sitka
21. Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area: Grand Pacific & Reid Glaciers; Margerie Glacier; Scenery; South Marble Island; Waterfalls and Terrain
22. Southeast Fairbanks Census Area
23. Valdez-Cordova Census Area
24. Wade Hampton Census Area
25. Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area
26. Yakutat: Smallest borough population in Alaska (808 people in 2000 Census).
27. Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area

(1) U.S. Census Bureau American FactFinder: 2005 Population Estimates; Table GCT-T1.
(2) U.S. Census Bureau FedStats - MapStats: 2000 Land Area; United States.

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