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Alaska is a U.S. state situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent. Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area, the 4th least populated and the least largely inhabited of the 50 United States. About one-half of Alaska's 735,132 locals live within the Anchorage city location.

Although it been occupied for thousands of years by indigenous peoples, from the 18th century onward, European powers thought about the territory of Alaska ripe for exploitation. The United States bought Alaska from Russia on March 30, 1867, for $7.2 million ($121 million adjusted for rising cost of living) at about two cents each acre ($4.74/ km ²). The area went through several management modifications before ending up being organized as a territory on May 11, 1912. It was admitted as the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959.

The name "Alaska" had actually been introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used to refer to the peninsula. It was acquired from an Aleut expression, which figuratively refers to the landmass of Alaska.

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Alaska has a longer coastline compared to all the other U.S. states combined. It is the only non-contiguous U.S. state on continental North America; concerning 500 miles (800 km) of British Columbia (Canada) separates Alaska from Washington. Alaska is therefore an exclave of the United States, potentially the biggest exclave on the planet. It is practically part of the continental U.S., however is often not included in colloquial use; Alaska is not component of the adjoining U.S., frequently called "the Lower 48". The resources city, Juneau, is located on the landmass of the North American continent, yet is not attached by road to the remainder of the North American motorway system.

The state is bordered by Yukon as well as British Columbia in Canada, to the east, the Gulf of Alaska and also the Pacific Ocean to the south, the Bering Sea, Bering Strait, and Chukchi Sea to the west and also the Arctic Ocean to the north. Alaska's territorial waters touch Russia's territorial waters in the Bering Strait, as the Russian Big Diomede Island as well as Alaskan Little Diomede Island are simply 3 miles (4.8 km) apart. With the expansion of the Aleutian Islands into the eastern hemisphere, it is practically both the westernmost and also easternmost state in the United States, in addition to likewise being the northernmost.

Alaska is the largest state in the United States in land location at 663,268 square miles (1,717,856 km2), over twice the dimension of Texas, the next largest state. Counting territorial waters, Alaska is bigger compared to the consolidated location of the next 3 largest states: Texas, California, as well as Montana.