About AlaskaAlaska is a huge state, the largest state in the United States by area. Our beautiful Alaska has a longer coastline than all the other U.S. states combined.Alaska is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait. We have the 4th least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States. Approximately half of Alaska's 722,718 residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area. |