Far Alaska, the largest in the United States, 586.4120 square miles (1518800 km ²) is the area. With multiple sub-continent the size of the entire contiguous 48 states corresponding to one fifth, and Alaska.
One of the least populated of all, the most sparsely populated, only the 2008 census population of 683,478 was second, with s of the United States. About half the population of the state, the Anchorage is a metropolitan area.
Great land
Coastline of the mainland United States than all of Alaska (more than 53.1 thousand kilometers) of 33.000 miles are. Also, it is more important than Rhode Island there are 10 glacial lakes and about 3000000 million.
Alaska Aleutian word or name Alyeshka Alakshak said, "it means a great land." Peak of 20 days, higher than among the U.S., 17, Alaska, Mount McKinley (Denali), 20.32 thousand feet, most in North America including the high peaks. Alaska, 1959 was the year.
Federal, state land, public land 28 percent, 11.8 percent of indigenous land for about 60 percent, 0.2 percent of the land consists of the private sector. The major economic sectors are tourism, oil industry, fisheries, timber. And Alaska residents pay income tax, mining and oil revenues in U.S. dollars of annual payments (usually in the hundreds of thousands of people do not) receive.
Alaska's wild land
Alaska, about two-thirds of total area in the United States s services include the National Park System, the area in the United States and 88% s of the National Wildlife System. State had more than 100 units in eight national parks, two national monuments 10,4, 16 national wildlife sanctuaries, 26 national wild and scenic rivers, one of two national forests, parks maintenance, and national .
Approximately 16 percent of Alaska as the nature of just 2.5 percent in South Dakota in the continental United States (size) than is specified. One of the most radical works of the law of conservation of the history of the United States, Alaska National Interest Land Protection Act 1980 of the new protected area was created 105 million acres are.
The beginning of human history in Alaska
Alaska's first inhabitants of the land over the bridge (currently under the Bering Strait), and from Siberia in the late ice age, about 12,000 years were flooded. γ-transition to the ice-free corridor, they will gradually see their way in search of food and shelter to the Americas. Other fish life is dependent on migration to the coast by boat.
Various directions by new entrants, the Inupiat and Yupik spread far north, the Alaska Peninsula, Aleutian Islands, Athabascan people inside, the Tlingit and Haida Aleuts (and), the Tsimshian live along the south coast Europe. First European explorers arrived in the region, 60000 and 80000 between the indigenous people who lived in Alaska immediately.
Seward, Alaska to Russia is crazy
Vitoberingu Sea in July 1741, Alexei Chirikova jobs are registered in the first region in Russia, Alaska and claimed. The coast of southern Russia, Alaska, 126 years, during the fur trading, most of the sea otter is settled that we stay clear of the population
In 1867, United States, Russia, 72 billion dollars, equivalent to about two acres purchased Alaska cents. Acquisition, Secretary of State Uiriamusuwado, Newspapers, coordinated by promptly dubbed "Seward's folly", a small ice cream Alaska call 'from. "Over the years, this purchase of Alaska, the state-owned oil, fish, rich in resources such as wood ... not to mention proving a magnet for tourists, which is what stupid!
One of the least populated of all, the most sparsely populated, only the 2008 census population of 683,478 was second, with s of the United States. About half the population of the state, the Anchorage is a metropolitan area.
Great land
Coastline of the mainland United States than all of Alaska (more than 53.1 thousand kilometers) of 33.000 miles are. Also, it is more important than Rhode Island there are 10 glacial lakes and about 3000000 million.
Alaska Aleutian word or name Alyeshka Alakshak said, "it means a great land." Peak of 20 days, higher than among the U.S., 17, Alaska, Mount McKinley (Denali), 20.32 thousand feet, most in North America including the high peaks. Alaska, 1959 was the year.
Federal, state land, public land 28 percent, 11.8 percent of indigenous land for about 60 percent, 0.2 percent of the land consists of the private sector. The major economic sectors are tourism, oil industry, fisheries, timber. And Alaska residents pay income tax, mining and oil revenues in U.S. dollars of annual payments (usually in the hundreds of thousands of people do not) receive.
Alaska's wild land
Alaska, about two-thirds of total area in the United States s services include the National Park System, the area in the United States and 88% s of the National Wildlife System. State had more than 100 units in eight national parks, two national monuments 10,4, 16 national wildlife sanctuaries, 26 national wild and scenic rivers, one of two national forests, parks maintenance, and national .
Approximately 16 percent of Alaska as the nature of just 2.5 percent in South Dakota in the continental United States (size) than is specified. One of the most radical works of the law of conservation of the history of the United States, Alaska National Interest Land Protection Act 1980 of the new protected area was created 105 million acres are.
The beginning of human history in Alaska
Alaska's first inhabitants of the land over the bridge (currently under the Bering Strait), and from Siberia in the late ice age, about 12,000 years were flooded. γ-transition to the ice-free corridor, they will gradually see their way in search of food and shelter to the Americas. Other fish life is dependent on migration to the coast by boat.
Various directions by new entrants, the Inupiat and Yupik spread far north, the Alaska Peninsula, Aleutian Islands, Athabascan people inside, the Tlingit and Haida Aleuts (and), the Tsimshian live along the south coast Europe. First European explorers arrived in the region, 60000 and 80000 between the indigenous people who lived in Alaska immediately.
Seward, Alaska to Russia is crazy
Vitoberingu Sea in July 1741, Alexei Chirikova jobs are registered in the first region in Russia, Alaska and claimed. The coast of southern Russia, Alaska, 126 years, during the fur trading, most of the sea otter is settled that we stay clear of the population
In 1867, United States, Russia, 72 billion dollars, equivalent to about two acres purchased Alaska cents. Acquisition, Secretary of State Uiriamusuwado, Newspapers, coordinated by promptly dubbed "Seward's folly", a small ice cream Alaska call 'from. "Over the years, this purchase of Alaska, the state-owned oil, fish, rich in resources such as wood ... not to mention proving a magnet for tourists, which is what stupid!
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