Several statistics exist considering the enormity of this state. In total, there are 586,400 square miles. It was originally purchased from Russia for around 7 million dollars. That comes out to about 2 cents per acre. That is more than half of the world's glaciers.
Common sense says that if population is low, wilderness is up.
There are not too many national parks in Manhattan. In Alaska there are 15 national parks, preserves and monuments in the state, and there are another 117 state parks, for a total of 322 million acres of public lands. These range from the dry arctic tundra of the northern part of the state to the moist rain forests of the Inside Passage, to the desert of sand dunes in Kobuk Valley. Alaska in shape is sort of a deformed peninsula, jutting off of North America. As for diversity of people, seven Native cultures and several sub-cultures live throughout the state.