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Alaska  is the largest state

in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with the international boundary 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. Alaska is the 4th least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States. Approximately half of Alaska's 722,718 [4] residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area.

 

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Alaska was purchased from Russia on March 30, 1867, for $ 7.2 million ($ 120 million adjusted for inflation) at approximately two cents per acre ($ 4.74/km ²). The land went through several administrative changes before becoming an organized (or incorporated) territory on May 11, 1912, and the 49th state of the US on January 3, 1959. [6]

 


The name "Alaska

" (Аляска) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning "the mainland" or, more literally, "the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ". [7] It is also known as Alyeska, the" great land ", an Aleut word derived from the same root.