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Map of Alaska highlighting the Unorganized Borough. The Unorganized Borough is the portion of the U.S. state of Alaska not contained in any of its 19 organized boroughs. While referred to as the "Unorganized Borough", it is not a borough itself. It encompasses over half of Alaska's area, 970,500 km 2. If the unorganized Borough were a state in ...
Each borough in Alaska has a borough seat, which is the administrative center for the borough. The Municipality of Anchorage is a consolidated city-borough, as are Sitka, Juneau, Haines, Yakutat, and Skagway. Nearly half of the state's area is part of the vast Unorganized Borough, which has no borough-level
Map of the United States with Alaska highlighted. Alaska is a state of the United States in the northwest extremity of the North American continent.According to the 2020 United States Census, Alaska is the 3rd least populous state with 733,391 inhabitants [1] but is the largest by land area spanning 570,640.95 square miles (1,477,953.3 km 2). [2]
Map of the United States with Alaska highlighted. Alaska is a state situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent.According to the 2010 United States Census, Alaska is the 3rd least populous state with 733,391 inhabitants but is the largest by land area spanning 665,384.04 square miles (1,723,336.8 km 2) of land.
The four United States statistical areas, 19 organized boroughs and 11 census areas of the State of Alaska; Core-based statistical area [1] 2023 population (est.) [3] County-equivalent
A locator map showing the Unorganized Borough in Alaska. David Benbennick made this map. For more information about it, see Commons:United States county locator maps .
Areas of Alaska which are not within the boundaries of an organized borough are, by default, part of a single unorganized borough. [2] However, beginning with the 1970 census , the United States Census Bureau , in cooperation with the state, divided this borough into multiple named census areas in order to facilitate the taking of the United ...
The entire state was defined as one vast unorganized borough by the Borough Act of 1961, and over the ensuing years, Alaska's organized boroughs were carved out of it. Alaska's first organized borough, and the only one incorporated immediately after passage of the 1961 legislation, was the Bristol Bay Borough .