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The U.S. state of Alaska is divided into 19 organized boroughs and 11 census areas in the unorganized borough. Alaska and the state of Louisiana are the only states that do not call their first-order administrative subdivisions counties (Louisiana uses parishes instead). [1] Delegates to the Alaska Constitutional Convention wanted to avoid the ...
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 ]
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]
The Anchorage metropolitan area, which includes Anchorage and the neighboring Matanuska-Susitna Borough, had a population of 398,328 in 2020, [10] accounting for more than half the state's population. At 1,706 sq mi (4,420 km 2) of land area, the city is the fourth-largest by area in the U.S. [11]
As of the 2020 census, Sitka had a population of 8,458, [4] making it the fifth-most populated city in the state. With a consolidated land area of 2,870.3 square miles (7,434 square kilometers) and total area (including water) of 4,811.4 square miles (12,461 km 2), Sitka is the largest city by total area in the U.S.
Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska and the second largest in the state. The 2020 Census put the population of the city proper at 32,515 [7] and the population of the Fairbanks North Star Borough at 95,655, [7] making it the second most populous metropolitan area in Alaska after Anchorage.
The North Slope Borough is the northernmost borough in the US state of Alaska and, thus, the northernmost county or equivalent of the United States as a whole. As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,031. [3] The borough seat and largest city, comprising nearly 1/2 of the borough’s population, is Utqiaġvik (known as Barrow from 1901 to ...
Wasilla (Dena'ina: Benteh [4]) is a city in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States, and the fourth-largest city in Alaska. It is located on the northern point of Cook Inlet in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley of the southcentral part of the state. The city's population was 9,054 at the 2020 census, up from 7,831 in 2010. [5]