Alaska:  The 49th State

Capital:  Juneau

State Flower: Forget-me-not

State Bird: Willow Ptarmigan

State Tree: Sitka  Spruce

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Chief Products:  clams, crabs, herring, salmon, coal, shrimp, chromite, gold, and petroleum.

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Statehood:  January 3, 1959

Nicknames:  Last Frontier,  Great Land  or  Land  of  the  Midnight Sun

Population:  609,200;  Rank: 48th

Land area:  506,833  square  miles;  Rank :  1st

Largest  city:  Anchorage

Number  of  counties:  25

Highest point:  Mt. McKinley : 20,320  feet

Coastline:  5,580 miles

Inland  water:  20,171  square miles

Bordering states:  none

 
 
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