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Is one of the states 

of the Pacific region, which includes in addition to Alaska four states are Washington state, and the state of Oregon, and California, and Hawaii. Alaska is the largest state in the United States and equivalent area of ​​five the rest of the U.S.,

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  and more than twice the size of Texas shortly. With an area of ​​1518776 square kilometers but its large size offset census relatively small compared to other states in population census in 1990 was Alaska ranked 49 of the most populous in the United States, and only Wyoming was lower than populous, in census in 1980 the population was 400,481 in the 2000 census the population of the state 626.932 inhabitants. Featuring Alaska as a separate state from the rest of the territory of the United States, is located northwest of Canada, and is separated from the state of Washington 500 miles (800 kilometers) from the Canadian territory. United States bought from Tsarist Russia Year (1284 -1867 AD) seven million and two hundred dollars was formally adopted as a state on January 3, 1959, where he was ranked 48 in the number of states at that time, so often called Alolaskjon Other States Lower Bal 48. Believed that the word Alaska carved from Aleesca word Alyeska, meaning the largest land or Mother Earth in the language of the Eskimo Aloleut people.

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Bordered the Yucatan 

Alkndaatin provinces and British Columbia from the east, the Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean from the south, the Bering Sea, the Bering Strait, the Chukchi Sea, apparently from the West, the Arctic Ocean and the Beaufort Sea from the north. Juneau is the capital of Alaska, and آنكريج is the largest city in terms of population. Cities Sitka, Juneau, and the order is the largest city in the United States in terms of area.

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Maximum points 

in western Alaska away from the Russian border 51 miles (82 kilometers) away. The small island Dayomid of Alaska located in the Bering Sea is only about two and a half miles (4 kilometers) from the island of major Dayomid and which follow Russia administratively. And thus these two points closer forum between North America and Asia.