Alaska, The Last Frontier

Land area: 570,374 sq. mi. (1)
Population (2000): 626,932 (48)
Population density: 1.10 per sq. mi. (50)
U.S. Representatives (2003-12): 1
Entered Union: 3-Jan-1959 (49)
I still haven’t gotten to Alaska. I had dreamed about taking the Alaska Highway up through British Columbia and the Yukon Territory to Alaska, possibly in the summer of 2005, but that trek has been deferred indefinitely. However, I am now contemplating an Alaska cruise in the late summer of 2009.

No. of Areas I’ve Visited: 0 of 28

Note: Alaska does not have counties. However, it does have boroughs and census areas, which some people use to delineate sections of the state. These are listed below.
Area Pop. (2000)     Latest Visit
Aleutians East * 2,697
Aleutians West # 5,465
Anchorage * 260,283
Bethel # 16,006
Bristol Bay * 1,258
Denali * 1,893
Dillingham # 4,922
Fairbanks North Star * 82,840
Haines * 2,392
Hoonah-Angoon # 3,436
Juneau * 30,711
Kenai Peninsula * 49,691
Ketchikan Gateway * 14,070
Kodiak Island * 13,913
Lake and Peninsula * 1,823
Matanuska-Susitna * 59,322
Nome # 9,196
North Slope * 7,385
Northwest Arctic * 7,208
Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan # 6,146
Sitka * 8,835
Skagway *
Southeast Fairbanks # 6,174
Valdez-Cordova # 10,195
Wade Hampton # 7,028
Wrangell-Petersburg # 6,684
Yakutat * 808
Yukon-Koyukuk # 6,551
* Borough. # Census Area.
Note: Skagway Borough was formed from Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area in October 2007. Full population for Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area (as of 2000 census) given under current Hoonah-Angoon Census Area.
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