Alaska
Alaska covers 656,425 square miles and has a population of 626,932 people. Alaska's capital is Juneau, which has a population of 30,711. Other important cities are Anchorage (pop. 260,283), Fairbanks (pop. 30,224), Sitka (pop. 8,835), Eagle River (pop. 29,917), Barrow (pop. 4,581) and College (pop. 11,402).

Alaska was admitted to the Union on January 3rd,1959  as the 49th state. The state flower is the "Forget Me Not" and it's nickname is "The Last Frontier". Alaska's economy is broken into two categories; agriculture and industry. Seafood, nursery stock, dairy products, vegetables and livestock provide for the agricultural side. While Petroleum and natural gas, gold and other mining, food processing, lumber and wood products and tourism provide for the industrial side.