Alaska

By Kseniya armashulaForm 9-a school 5724/04/2015

Alaska

Geographical Position

History

Vitus Bering and Alexei Chirikov

Population

EskimosIndianAleut

Nature

Mount McKinley

Augustine Volcano, erupting on January 12, 2006

Near Little Port Walter in Southeast Alaska

Matanuska glacier

Calving glacier

Kenai River on the Kenai Peninsula

Nushagak River in Southwest Alaska

Grizzly bear

Facts

CapitalJuneauLargest cityAnchorageAdmission to UnionJanuary 3, 1959 (49th state)Population736,732Area1,717,856 km2Official languageEnglish

Bill Walker, GovernorThe center of state government in Juneau.

CitiesAnchorage, Alaska's largest city.

Fairbanks, Alaska's second-largest city and by a significant margin the largest city in Alaska's interior.

Juneau, Alaska's third-largest city and its capital.

Bethel, the largest city in the Unorganized Borough and in rural Alaska.

State symbols

Origin of name: Aleut word meaning great land or that which the sea breaks againstNickname:The Last Frontier or Land of the Midnight SunMotto: North to the FutureState song: Alaskas Flag"

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