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.
—southern parts of the Arctic Ocean. The Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. It is the largest U.S. state by area and the seventh largest subnational division in the world. In addition, it is the 3rd least populous and the most sparsely populated of the 50 United States; nevertheless, it is by far the most populous territory located mostly north of the 60th parallel in North America: its population—estimated at 738,432 by the United States Census Bureau in 2015— is more than quadruple the combined populations of
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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