DATE OF STATEHOOD: January 3, 1959
AREA: 665,384 square miles (total land and water)
CAPITAL: Juneau
HIGHEST POINT: Denali, 20,310 feet
POPULATION: 731,545 (2019 estimate)
NICKNAME: The Last Frontier or Land of the Midnight Sun
STATE MOTTO: “North to the Future”
AVERAGE JANUARY TEMPERATURE: 5°F
AVERAGE JULY TEMPERATURE: 55°F
NATURAL RESOURCES: coal, fish, forests, gold, gravel, natural gas, oil, molybdenum, sand, tin, water, zinc
AGRICULTURE: beef, eggs, grains, greenhouse products, milk, potatoes, reindeer…