Facts And Figures

Here we have some interesting facts and figures about the beautiful state of Alaska:

State capital – Juneau (population 30987)

Population – 670503 ranked 47th in United States

People per square mile – 1 ranked most sparsely populated state

Largest cities:  Anchorage (population 260283)
                        Fairbanks (population 31324)
                        Sitka (population 8986)

Land area – 577527 sq miles (2.3 times larger than Texas)

Highest point – mt McKinley 20320ft (highest point in the USA and North America)

State nickname – The last frontier

Date joined the union – 3rd January 1959, 49th state

State motto – north to the future

State tree – Sitka spruce

State mineral – Gold

State bird - ptarmigan willow

State flower – wild forget me not

Ten facts about Alaska:

• The state of Rhode island could fit into Alaska 425 times
• Of the 20 highest peaks in the united states 17 are in Alaska
• Almost one third of Alaska is situated within the arctic circle
• The States coastline extends over 6600 miles, excluding Hawaii the rest of the states only have 6053 miles of coastline combined
• The largest earthquake ever recorded in the northern hemisphere hit Alaska on the 27th march 1964 and registered 9.2 on the Richter scale
• Alaska has by far the lowest population density per square mile with 1.1, the next lowest is Wyoming at 5.2 people per square mile, to put this into perspective new jersey has a population density of 1134 people per square mile
• Juneau is the only state capital in the united states that can only be reached by boat or plane
• Of all the states brown bears can be found in Alaska has 98% of the nations brown bear population
• The tongass national forest is the largest in the united states
• The trans-Alaskan pipeline moves 88000 barrels of oil per hour over 800 miles to Valdez