Alaska

Alaska is by far the largest state of the by land area. Nicknamed "the last frontier", Alaska is sparsely populated with a harsh climate but incredible scenery.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations: Juneau and Anchorage.

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is the capital of Alaska, in the state's region. is on the North American mainland and yet cannot be reached by land. Effectively, the rugged mountains surrounding it make into an island city, reachable only by air or by sea.

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is the largest city in Alaska, in the region. is a cosmopolitan port city with a population of 291 247. It is a consolidated city-borough referred to as a municipality.

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is a town in . With 31,000 inhabitants, and 98,000 in , it is Alaska's second-largest city. A junction of several major highways, will be a likely stop of most visitors to the state.

Destinations to Discover

Places to explore: Southcentral Alaska and Arctic Alaska.

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is a region of Alaska, home to its largest population center around , on the north Pacific Ocean.

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, also referred to as Far North Alaska, is a vast region of Alaska extending from around the Arctic Circle to the Arctic Ocean.

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is sometimes called the Alaska "panhandle". It consists of a thin strip of land and islands between Canada's and the northern Pacific Ocean.

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is the central region of Alaska's territory, roughly bounded by the to the south and the to the north. It is largely wilderness.

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is a region in Alaska, including the and the Alaska Peninsula which forms the "chin" of Alaska. Both are volcanic regions, part of the Pacific Ring of Fire.

Alaska

  • Type: State with 740,000 residents
  • Description: state of the United States of America
  • Also known as: “AK”, “Ak.”, “Alaeksa”, “Alakskak”, “Alaksu”, “Alaschka”, “Alaska eyaleti”, “Alaska, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”, “Alaska, Estados Unidos”, “Alaska, United States”, “Aliaksa”, “Anian”, “Estado do Alasca”, “Estado do Alaska”, “État de l’Alaska”, “Gamaland”, “La última frontera”, “Land of the Midnight Sun”, “New Albion”, “Russian America”, “Sewards Folly”, “State of Alaska”, “Steat Alaska”, “Territory of Alaska”, “The Last Frontier”, “US-AK”, “ئەلاسکا”, “ولاية آلاسكا”, and “ولاية ألاسكا”
  • Neighbors: , , and
  • Categories: exclave, U.S. state, and locality
  • Location: ,
  • View on Open­Street­Map
Latitude of center
64.8° or 64° 48′ north
Longitude of center
-151.6° or 151° 36′ west
Population
740,000
Elevation
1,381 feet (421 metres)
Abbreviation
“AK”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 474582475
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
5879092
Wiki­data ID
Q797
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Alaska” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Alaska”
  • Albanian: “Alaska”
  • Amharic: “አላስካ”
  • Arabic: “ألاسكا”
  • Aragonese: “Alaska”
  • Armenian: “Ալյասկա”
  • Arpitan: “Alaska”
  • Asturian: “Alaska”
  • Atikamekw: “Alaska”
  • Aymara: “Alaska suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Alyaska”
  • Balinese: “Alaska”
  • Bashkir: “Аляска”
  • Basque: “Alaska”
  • Bavarian: “Alaska”
  • Belarusian: “Аляска”
  • Bengali: “আলাস্কা”
  • Betawi: “Alaska”
  • Bhojpuri: “अलास्का”
  • Bishnupriya: “আলাস্কা”
  • Bislama: “Alaska”
  • Bosnian: “Aljaska”
  • Breton: “Alaska”
  • Bulgarian: “Аляска”
  • Burmese: “အလက်စကာပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Alaska”
  • Cebuano: “Alaska”
  • Central Bikol: “Alaska”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئالاسکا”
  • Chavacano: “Alaska”
  • Chechen: “Аляска”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᎳᏍᎦ”
  • Chinese: “阿拉斯加”
  • Chinese: “阿拉斯加州”
  • Choctaw: “Alaska”
  • Church Slavic: “Аласка”
  • Chuvash: “Аляска”
  • Cornish: “Alaska”
  • Corsican: “Alaska”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Alâska”
  • Croatian: “Aljaska”
  • Czech: “Aljaška”
  • Dagbani: “Alaska”
  • Danish: “Alaska”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Alaska”
  • Dutch: “Alaska”
  • Eastern Mari: “Аляска”
  • Eastern Mari: “Аляске”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الاسكا”
  • Emilian: “Alàska”
  • Esperanto: “Alasko”
  • Estonian: “Alaska”
  • Ewe: “Alaska”
  • Extremaduran: “Alaska”
  • Faroese: “Alaska”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Alaska”
  • Finnish: “Alaska”
  • French: “Alaska”
  • Fulah: “Alaska”
  • Gagauz: “Alaska”
  • Gagauz: “Alâska”
  • Galician: “Alasca”
  • Gan Chinese: “阿拉斯加州”
  • Georgian: “ალასკა”
  • German: “Alaska”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Alaska”
  • Gilaki: “آلاسکا”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍃𐌺𐌰”
  • Greek: “Αλάσκα”
  • Guarani: “Aláka”
  • Guarani: “Alaska”
  • Gujarati: “અલાસ્કા”
  • Haitian: “Alaska”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Alaska”
  • Hausa: “Alaska”
  • Hawaiian: “‘Ālaka”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻĀlaka”
  • Hebrew: “אלסקה”
  • Hindi: “अलास्का”
  • Hungarian: “Alaszka”
  • Icelandic: “Alaska”
  • Ido: “Alaska”
  • Igbo: “Àláskà”
  • Iloko: “Alaska”
  • Inari Sami: “Alaska”
  • Indonesian: “Alaska”
  • Interlingua: “Alaska”
  • Interlingue: “Alaska”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐊᓛᓯᑲ”
  • Inupiaq: “Alaaskaq”
  • Inupiaq: “Alaska”
  • Irish: “Alasca”
  • Italian: “Alaska”
  • Japanese: “アラスカ州”
  • Javanese: “Alaska”
  • Kabiyè: “Alaskaa”
  • Kalmyk: “Аляск”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲಾಸ್ಕ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Alyaska”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Аляска”
  • Kashmiri: “الاسکا”
  • Kashmiri: “अलास्‍का”
  • Kazakh: “Аляска штаты”
  • Kazakh: “Аляска”
  • Kirghiz: “Аляска”
  • Komering: “Alaska”
  • Korean: “알래스카 주”
  • Korean: “알래스카”
  • Korean: “알래스카주”
  • Kurdish: “Alaska”
  • Ladin: “Alaska”
  • Ladino: “Alaska”
  • Lao: “ລັດອາລາສະກາ”
  • Lao: “ອາລາສກາ”
  • Latin: “Alasca”
  • Latvian: “Aļaska”
  • Lezghian: “Аляска”
  • Ligurian: “Alaska”
  • Limburgan: “Alaska”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Alaska”
  • Literary Chinese: “阿拉斯加州”
  • Lithuanian: “Aliaska”
  • Lombard: “Alaska”
  • Low German: “Alaska”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Alaska”
  • Luxembourgish: “Alaska”
  • Macedonian: “Алјаска”
  • Maithili: “अलास्का”
  • Malagasy: “Alaska”
  • Malay: “Alaska”
  • Malayalam: “അലാസ്ക”
  • Maltese: “Alaska”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯂꯥꯁꯀꯥ”
  • Manx: “Alaska”
  • Maori: “Alaska”
  • Maori: “Araka”
  • Marathi: “अलास्का”
  • Mazanderani: “آلاسکا”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “آلاسكا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Alaska”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Alaska”
  • Minangkabau: “Alaska”
  • Mingrelian: “ალასკა”
  • Moksha: “Аляска”
  • Mongolian: “Аляска”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ألاسكا”
  • Nauru: “Alaska”
  • Navajo: “Hakʼaz Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Nepali: “अलास्का”
  • Newari: “अलास्का”
  • Northern Frisian: “Alaska”
  • Northern Luri: “آلاسکا”
  • Northern Sami: “Alaska”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alaska”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alaska”
  • Norwegian: “Alaska”
  • Novial: “Alaska”
  • Nyanja: “Alaska”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Alaska”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܠܐܣܟܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Alaska”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ēalascæ”
  • Oriya: “ଆଲାସ୍କା”
  • Oromo: “Alaska”
  • Ossetian: “Аляскæ”
  • Pali: “अलास्का”
  • Pampanga: “Alaska”
  • Pangasinan: “Alaska”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਲਾਸਕਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Alaska”
  • Persian: “آلاسکا”
  • Picard: “Alaska”
  • Piemontese: “Alasca”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Alaska”
  • Polish: “Alaska”
  • Portuguese: “Alasca”
  • Pushto: “الاسکا”
  • Quechua: “Alaska suyu”
  • Romanian: “Alaska”
  • Romansh: “Alasca”
  • Russia Buriat: “Аляска”
  • Russian: “Аляска”
  • Rusyn: “Аляска”
  • Samogitian: “Aleska”
  • Sanskrit: “अलास्का”
  • Sanskrit: “अलास्‍का”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱞᱟᱥᱠᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Alaska”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Alaska”
  • Scots: “Alaska”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Alasca”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Alasga”
  • Serbian: “Аљаска”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aljaska”
  • Sicilian: “Alaska”
  • Silesian: “Alaska”
  • Sindhi: “الاسڪا”
  • Sinhala: “ඇලස්කාව”
  • Skolt Sami: “Alaska”
  • Slovak: “Aljaška”
  • Slovenian: “Aljaska”
  • Somali: “Alaska”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلاسکا”
  • Spanish: “Alaska”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Alaska”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⵍⴰⵙⴽⴰ”
  • Swahili: “Alaska”
  • Swedish: “Alaska”
  • Swiss German: “Alaska”
  • Tachelhit: “Alaṣka”
  • Tagalog: “Alaska”
  • Tajik: “Аляска”
  • Talysh: “Aljaska”
  • Talysh: “Alyaska”
  • Tamil: “அலாஸ்கா”
  • Tatar: “Аляска”
  • Telugu: “అలాస్కా”
  • Thai: “รัฐอะแลสกา”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻAlasikā”
  • Tumbuka: “Alaska”
  • Turkish: “Alaska”
  • Turkmen: “Alýaska”
  • Udmurt: “Аляска”
  • Uighur: “Alyaska Shitati”
  • Ukrainian: “Аляска”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Alaska”
  • Urdu: “الاسکا”
  • Uzbek: “Alaska”
  • Uzbek: “Alyaska”
  • Venetian: “Ałasca”
  • Venetian: “Alaska”
  • Vietnamese: “Alaska”
  • Vlaams: “Alaska”
  • Vlax Romani: “Alaska”
  • Volapük: “Alaska”
  • Volapük: “Lalaskän”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alaska”
  • Welsh: “Alaska”
  • Western Armenian: “Ալասքա”
  • Western Frisian: “Alaska”
  • Western Mari: “Аляска”
  • Western Panjabi: “الاسکا”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿拉斯加”
  • Xhosa: “I-Alaskha”
  • Yakut: “Аляска”
  • Yiddish: “אלאסקע”
  • Yoruba: “Alaska”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿拉斯加州”
  • Zeeuws: “Alaska”
  • Zhuang: “Alaska”
  • “Alaska”
  • “ma Alaka”
  • “अलास्का”

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