Title: Alaska
Content:  Alaska (Alaasikaq; ; Yup'ik: Alaskaq; ) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., it borders the Canadian province of British Columbia and the territory of Yukon to the east and has a maritime border with the Russian Federation's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug to the west, just across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas of the Arctic Ocean, while the Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. Alaska is by far the largest U.S. state by area, comprising more total area than the next three largest states (Texas, California, and Montana) combined. It represents 
Title: Alaskan nationalism
Content:  Alaskan nationalism asserts that Alaska is a distinct nation. Alaska has been one of the fifty states of the United States of America since 1959. Alaska's legal status within the United States has been disputed at times, most recently by a movement launched by Joe Vogler and the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP). Generally, the debate has surrounded the legal status of Alaska relative to the United States, and its international standing.
Title: Geography of Alaska
Content:  bordered by Yukon and British Columbia, Canada to the east, the Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean to the south, Russia (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug), Bering Sea, the Bering Strait, and Chukchi Sea to the west, and the Beaufort Sea and the Arctic Ocean to the north. Because it extends into the Eastern Hemisphere, it is technically both the westernmost and easternmost state in the United States, as well as also being the northernmost. Alaska is the largest state in the United States in terms of land area at 570,380 sqmi, over twice (roughly 2.47 times) as large as Texas, the next largest state, and is the seventh largest country subdivision in the world, and the third largest in 
Title: Alaska
Content:  Located at the northwest corner of North America, Alaska is the northernmost and westernmost state in the United States, but also has the most easterly longitude in the United States because the Aleutian Islands extend into the Eastern Hemisphere. Alaska is the only non-contiguous U.S. state on continental North America; about 500 mi of British Columbia (Canada) separates Alaska from Washington. It is technically part of the continental U.S., but is sometimes not included in colloquial use; Alaska is not part of the contiguous U.S., often called "the Lower 48". The capital city, Juneau, is situated on the mainland of the North American continent but is not connected by road 
Title: Contiguous United States
Content:   Alaska became the 49th state of the United States on January 3, 1959. Alaska is on the northwest end of the North American continent, but separated from the rest of the United States West Coast by the Canadian province of British Columbia. The term Lower 48 has, for many years, been a common Alaskan equivalent for "contiguous United States"; today, many Alaskans use the term "Outside", though a few persons may use "Outside" to refer to any location not within Alaska.
Title: Geography of Alaska
Content:   Alaska occupies the northwestern portion of the North American continent and is bordered only by Canada on the east. It is one of two U.S. states not bordered by another state; Hawaii is the other. Alaska has more ocean coastline than all of the other U.S. states combined. About 500 mi of Canadian territory separate Alaska from Washington state. Alaska is thus an exclave of the United States that is part of the continental U.S. and the U.S. West Coast, but is not part of the contiguous U.S. Alaska is also the only state, other than Hawaii, whose capital city is accessible only via ship or air, because no roads connect Juneau to the rest of the continent. The state 
Title: Outline of Alaska
Content: Alaska is: a U.S. state, a federal state of the United States of America ; Location: westernmost North America ; Northern and Western Hemisphere ; Americas ; North America ; Anglo America ; Northern America ; United States of America ; Alaska Time Zone ; Population of Alaska: 710,231 (2010 U.S. Census ) ; Area of Alaska: ; Atlas of Alaska Geography of Alaska
Title: Alaska
Content:  the rest of the North American highway system. The state is bordered by Canada's Yukon and British Columbia to the east (making it the only state to border a Canadian territory); the Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean to the south and southwest; the Bering Sea, Bering Strait, and Chukchi Sea to the west; and the Arctic Ocean to the north. Alaska's territorial waters touch Russia's territorial waters in the Bering Strait, as the Russian Big Diomede Island and Alaskan Little Diomede Island are only 3 mi apart. Alaska has a longer coastline than all the other U.S. states combined. At 663268 sqmi in area, Alaska is by far 
Title: Compendium of postage stamp issuers (Aa–Al)
Content: Capital ; Juneau ; Refer ; United States of America Largest state of the USA but separated from the rest by Canada. Discovered by Vitus Bering in 1741, it was first settled by Russia in 1744. The USA purchased the territory in 1867 for $7.2 million at a penny an acre. Alaska was admitted to the Union on 3 January 1959 as the 49th state. There was no postal service under Russian ownership. Alaska has used stamps of the USA only.
Title: Geography of Alaska
Content:  America, about 20.4% smaller than Denmark's autonomous country of Greenland and 17.6% smaller than Canada's largest territory of Nunavut. If the state's westernmost point were superimposed on San Francisco, California, its easternmost point would be in Jacksonville, Florida. Alaska is larger than all but 18 sovereign nations (it is slightly larger than Iran but slightly smaller than Libya). Alaska is home to 3.5 million lakes of 20 acre or larger. Marshlands and wetland permafrost cover 188,320 sqmi (mostly in northern, western and southwest flatlands). Frozen water, in the form of glacier ice, covers some 16,000 sqmi of land and 1,200 sqmi of tidal zone. The Bering Glacier complex near the southeastern border with Yukon, Canada, covers 2,250 sqmi alone.

Question: what country does alaska belong to?
Answer: United States of America.