Hey, have you ever been to Alaska? It's the largest US state.
Yeah, I've been to a few places in Alaska.
Which places? I hear it's the most sparsely populated of the states.
Anchorage, Juneau, Denali, it seems the biggest cities are near the south coast.
That's awesome! Alaska has a border with Canada to the east and also with Russia to the west.
Russia, really? I didn't know it went that far.
Yeah it's the largest US state by area.
I didn't know that, that makes sense.
Northern Canada and Greenland. Approximately half of Alaska's residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance. United States armed forces bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy.
In a deal known as Seward's Folly, The United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, for 7.2 million U.S. dollars at approximately two cents per acre ($4.74/km)
of Fairbanks).
The state's most populous city is Anchorage, home to 278,700 people in 2006, 225,744 of whom live in the urbanized area. The richest location in Alaska by per capita income is Halibut Cove ($89,895). Yakutat City, Sitka, Juneau, and Anchorage are the four largest cities in the U.S. by area.
Cities, towns and boroughs Cities and census-designated places (by population).
As reflected in the 2010 United States Census, Alaska has a total of 355 incorporated