Alaska

**Alaska** is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait. Approximately half of Alaska's 710,231 residents (as per the 2010 United States Census) live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska is the least densely populated state of the U.S.

Alaska was purchased from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, for $7.2 million ($113 million in today's dollars) at about two cents per acre ($4.74/km²). The land went through several administrative changes before becoming an organized (or incorporated) territory on May 11, 1912, and the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.

The name "Alaska" (Аляска) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning "the mainland" or more literally, "the object towards which the action of the sea is directed". It is also known as Alyeska, the "great land", an Aleut word derived from the same root.

### Alaskan Cities

Adak

Akhiok

Akiachak

Akiak

Akutan

Alakanuk

Alatna

Alcan Border

Aleknagik

Aleneva

Allakaket

Alpine

Ambler

Anaktuvuk Pass

Anchorage municipality

Anchor Point

Anderson

Angoon

Aniak

Anvik

Arctic Village

Atka

Atmautluak

Atqasuk

Attu Station

Barrow

Bear Creek

Beaver

Beluga

Bethel

Bettles

Big Delta

Big Lake

Birch Creek

Brevig Mission

Buckland

Buffalo Soapstone

Butte

Cantwell

Central

Chalkyitsik

Chase

Chefornak

Chenega

Chevak

Chickaloon

Chicken

Chignik

Chignik Lagoon

Chignik Lake

Chiniak

Chisana

Chistochina

Chitina

Chuathbaluk

Circle

Clam Gulch

Clark's Point

Coffman Cove

Cohoe

Cold Bay

Coldfoot

College

Cooper Landing

Copper Center

Copperville

Cordova

Covenant Life

Craig

Crooked Creek

Crown Point

Cube Cove

Deering

Delta Junction

Deltana

Diamond Ridge

Dillingham

Diomede

Dot Lake

Dot Lake Village

Dry Creek

Eagle

Eagle Village

Edna Bay

Eek

Egegik

Eielson AFB

Ekwok

Elfin Cove

Elim

Emmonak

Ester

Evansville

Excursion Inlet

Fairbanks

False Pass

Farm Loop

Ferry

Fishhook

Flat

Fort Greely

Fort Yukon

Four Mile Road

Fox

Fox River

Fritz Creek

Funny River

Gakona

Galena

Gambell

Game Creek

Gateway

Glacier View

Glennallen

Golovin

Goodnews Bay

Grayling

Gulkana

Gustavus

Haines

Halibut Cove

Happy Valley

Harding-Birch Lakes

Healy

Healy Lake

Hobart Bay

Hollis

Holy Cross

Homer

Hoonah

Hooper Bay

Hope

Houston

Hughes

Huslia

Hydaburg

Hyder

Igiugig

Iliamna

Ivanof Bay

Juneau city and borough

Kachemak

Kake

Kaktovik

Kalifornsky

Kaltag

Karluk

Kasaan

Kasigluk

Kasilof

Kenai

Kenny Lake

Ketchikan

Kiana

King Cove

King Salmon

Kipnuk

Kivalina

Klawock

Klukwan

Knik-Fairview

Knik River

Kobuk

Kodiak

Kodiak Station

Kokhanok

Koliganek

Kongiganak

Kotlik

Kotzebue

Koyuk

Koyukuk

Kupreanof

Kwethluk

Kwigillingok

Lake Louise

Lake Minchumina

Lakes

Larsen Bay

Lazy Mountain

Levelock

Lime Village

Livengood

Lowell Point

Lower Kalskag

Lutak

McCarthy

McGrath

McKinley Park

Manley Hot Springs

Manokotak

Marshall

Meadow Lakes

Mekoryuk

Mendeltna

Mentasta Lake

Metlakatla

Meyers Chuck

Miller Landing

Minto

Moose Creek

Moose Pass

Mosquito Lake

Mountain Village

Mud Bay

Naknek

Nanwalek

Napakiak

Napaskiak

Naukati Bay

Nelchina

Nelson Lagoon

Nenana

New Allakaket

Newhalen

New Stuyahok

Newtok

Nightmute

Nikiski

Nikolaevsk

Nikolai

Nikolski

Ninilchik

Noatak

Nome

Nondalton

Noorvik

North Pole

Northway

Northway Junction

Northway Village

Nuiqsut

Nulato

Nunapitchuk

Old Harbor

Oscarville

Ouzinkie

Palmer

Paxson

Pedro Bay

Pelican

Perryville

Petersburg

Petersville

Pilot Point

Pilot Station

Pitkas Point

Platinum

Pleasant Valley

Point Baker

Point Hope

Point Lay

Point MacKenzie

Pope-Vannoy Landing

Portage Creek

Port Alexander

Port Alsworth

Port Clarence

Port Graham

Port Heiden

Port Lions

Port Protection

Primrose

Prudhoe Bay

Quinhagak

Rampart

Red Devil

Red Dog Mine

Ridgeway

Ruby

Russian Mission

St. George

St. Mary's

St. Michael

St. Paul

Salamatof

Salcha

Sand Point

Savoonga

Saxman

Scammon Bay

Selawik

Seldovia

Seldovia Village

Seward

Shageluk

Shaktoolik

Sheldon Point (Nunam Iqua)

Shishmaref

Shungnak

Silver Springs

Sitka city and borough

Skagway

Skwentna

Slana

Sleetmute

Soldotna

South Naknek

Stebbins

Sterling

Stevens Village

Stony River

Sunrise

Susitna

Sutton-Alpine

Takotna

Talkeetna

Tanacross

Tanaina

Tanana

Tatitlek

Tazlina

Teller

Tenakee Springs

Tetlin

Thoms Place

Thorne Bay

Togiak

Tok

Toksook Bay

Tolsona

Tonsina

Trapper Creek

Tuluksak

Tuntutuliak

Tununak

Twin Hills

Two Rivers

Tyonek

Ugashik

Unalakleet

Unalaska

Upper Kalskag

Valdez

Venetie

Wainwright

Wales

Wasilla

Whale Pass

White Mountain

Whitestone Logging Camp

Whittier

Willow

Willow Creek

Wiseman

Womens Bay

Wrangell

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Yakutat