page_title: Alaska
section_title: Transportation
hierarchical_section_title: Alaska / Transportation
caption_attribution_description: English: en:Sterling Highway, en:Alaska photo from flickr by Steve Lyon. The en:Sterling Highway, as viewed when traveling westwards to Soldotna/Kenai from Cooper Landing as one leaves the en:Kenai Mountains.
context_page_description: Alaska is a state located in the northwest extremity of the United States West Coast, just across the Bering Strait from Asia. An exclave of the U.S., it borders the Canadian province of British Columbia and territory of Yukon to the east and southeast and has a maritime border with Russia's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug to the west. 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 the largest U.S. state by area and the seventh-largest subnational division in the world. It is the third-least populous and the most sparsely populated state, but by far the continent's most populous territory located mostly north of the 60th parallel, with an estimated population of 738,432 as 2015—more than quadruple the combined populations of Northern Canada and Greenland. Approximately half of Alaska's residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. The state capital of Juneau is the second-largest city in the United States by area, comprising more territory than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware.
  Alaska was occupied by various indigenous peoples for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans.
caption: The Sterling Highway, near its intersection with the Seward Highway
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