Beautiful Alaska! Also known as ‘Gold country’ is the northernmost and westernmost state in the United States and has the most easterly longitude in the United States in light of the fact that the Aleutian Islands stretch out into the Eastern Hemisphere. Alaska is the only non-contiguous U.S. state; around 500 miles of British Columbia (Canada) isolates Alaska from Washington. It is in fact part of the mainland U.S., however is here and there excluded in everyday use. The capital city, Juneau, is situated on the terrain of the North American mainland however isn’t connected by road to the North American highway.
The state is flanked by Yukon and British Columbia in Canada, toward the east, the Gulf of Alaska and the Pacific Ocean toward the south and southwest, the Bering Sea, Bering Strait, and Chukchi Sea toward the west and the Arctic Ocean toward the north.
Alaska’s regional waters touch Russia’s regional waters in the Bering Strait, as the Russian Big Diomede Island and Alaska Little Diomede Island are just 3 miles apart. Alaska has a larger coastline than the various U.S. states combined. Referred to in many cases as the ‘Frozen North’, Alaska is the biggest state in the United States at 663,268 square miles, over double the size of Texas, the second biggest state. The Frozen North is bigger than everything except 18 sovereign nations. Including regional waters, Alaska is bigger than the combined region of the following three biggest states: Texas, California, and Montana. It is additionally bigger than the joined zone of the 22 smallest U.S. states.
