Alaska became the 49th state in 1959, right before Hawaii became the 50th state that same year. Many of Alaska’s 722,200 people live in modern cities, and many live in small remote villages where their families have lived for thousands of years. The population of Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, is 296,000. Juneau (population 32,300) is the State Capital. If you place Alaska, with all of its islands, on top of the “continental” United States, it spans from the Great Lakes to Texas and from Florida…
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