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The state's economy has been described by University of Alaska Anchorage economist Scott Goldsmith as a "three-legged stool" – with one leg being the petroleum and gas industry, the second leg being the federal government and the third leg being all other industries and services. Between 2004 and 2006, the federal government was responsible ...
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All the counties were created in 1905 from unorganized territory, seven years after the Territory of Hawaii was created. [2] [3] The county of Kalawao was historically exclusively used as a leper colony, and does not have many of the elected officials the other counties do. [4] Many services for Kalawao County are provided by Maui County.
The four United States statistical areas and five counties of the State of HawaiĘ»i; Core-based statistical area [1] 2023 population (est.) [3] County-equivalent 2023 population (est.) [3] Urban Honolulu, HI MSA: 989,408 City and County of Honolulu: 989,408 Hilo-Kailua, HI μSA: 207,615 Hawaii County: 207,615 Kahului-Wailuku, HI MSA: 164,264 ...
The U.S. state of Alaska is divided into 19 organized boroughs and 11 census areas in the unorganized borough.Alaska, and the states of Connecticut and Louisiana are the only states that do not call their first-order administrative subdivisions counties (Connecticut uses Planning Regions and Louisiana uses parishes instead). [1]
Southeast Alaska, often abbreviated to southeast or southeastern, [1] and sometimes called the Alaska(n) panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Alaska, bordered to the east and north by the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia (and a small part of Yukon).
Alaska is the largest state in the United States in terms of land area at 570,380 square miles (1,477,300 km 2), over twice (roughly 2.47 times) as large as Texas, the next largest state, and is the seventh largest country subdivision in the world, and the third largest in North America, about 20.4% smaller than Denmark's autonomous country of ...
This is a list of places in Alaska, including cities, towns, unincorporated communities, counties, and other recognized places.The list also includes information on the number and names of counties in which the place lies, and its lower and upper zip code bounds, if applicable.