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| Alaska covers 586,400 square miles or 371 million acres |
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- Alaska has 100,000 glaciers covering 28,000 sqare miles or 4.9% of the state's land mass.
- The state capital is the southeastern city of Juneau of about 30,000 people. Juneau is not accessible by car.
- Anchorage is the State's largest city with a little over 225,000 people.
- Fairbankes is the second largest city, located in the interior of the state, with just over 32,000 people.
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Alaska is 1/5 the size of the rest of the USA and stretches 2,400
miles east to west and 1,420 miles north to south |
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- Alaska is the norther-most, western-most, and eastern-most state is the USA.
- Alaska's climate is quite variable due, to the state's large size. The
southeastern and southcentral coasts are wet and mild, the interior is
cool and dry, and the northern region experiences very cold, dry
weather. The record high temperature in Alaska was 100 degrees
Fahrenheit at Fort Yukon in 1915. The record low temperature was
-80 degrees Fahrenheit at Prospect Creek Camp in 1971.
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