Traveling the Epic State of Alaska ( Attractions around Anchorage)

Alaska is a U. S. state in the Western United States, on the northwest extremity of the country s west coast. A semiexclave of the U. S., it borders the Canadian province of British Columbia and territory of Yukon to the east and has a maritime border with Russia s Chukotka Autonomous Okrug to the west, just across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas of the Arctic Ocean, while the Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. Alaska is by far the largest U. S. state by area, comprising more total area than the next three largest states Texas, California, and Montana combined, and the seventh largest subnational division in the world. It is the thirdleast populous and the most sparsely populated state, but by far the continent s most populous territory located mostly north of the 60th parallel, with a population of 736, 081 as of 2020more than quadruple the combined populations of Northern Canada and Greenland. Approximately half of Alaska s residents live w