Arctic
Circle
BERING SEA
ST. MATTHEW
ISLAND
NUNIVAK
ISLAND
PRIBILOF ISLANDS
ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
ST. LAWRENCE
ISLAND
St. Paul Island
St. George Island
Scammon Bay
Hooper Bay
Unalaska
Dutch Harbor
Savoonga
Gambell
Goodnews Bay
Sand Point
Cold Bay
False Pass
Akutan
King Cove
Mekoryuk
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Alaska & Lower 48 comparison
The state is divided into five regions:
WELCOME TO THE
49TH STATE
Alaska is so large that it's sometimes hard to get our heads around it.
Here are a few examples to help:
If you put a map of Alaska over a map of the lower 48 states, Alaska would
stretch east to west from Savannah, Georgia, to Los Angeles, and south to
north from the Texas Panhandle to the top of North Dakota.
A flight between Juneau, our capital, and Anchorage, our largest city, is
1.5 hours. That's roughly the same time as it takes to fly from Denver to
Los Angeles (or from Chicago to New York).
INTERIOR
The Interior Region is a quintessentially Alaska
landscape, bounded by high mountain ranges
(it's home to Denali) and crisscrossed by
glorious river vistas.
Hub communities: Fairbanks, Tok
ARCTIC
Alaska's far north features the country's only Arctic
ecosystem; northern lights dance above the snowy
tundra in winter, while birds and caribou graze
during the long summer days.
Hub communities: Nome, Kotzebue, Utqiaġvik (Barrow)
SOUTHWEST
Southwest Alaska's islands, river deltas, and
mountains teem with fish and wildlife.
Hub communities: Kodiak, Bethel, Dillingham
INSIDE PASSAGE
The Inside Passage in the Southeast is home to breath-
taking temperate rainforests, protected waterways, and
glaciers reaching into deep coastal fjords.
Hub communities: Ketchikan, Juneau
SOUTHCENTRAL
Southcentral Alaska is home to vividly diverse wilderness
landscapes — from beaches to mountaintops to fjords —
as well as half the state's population.
Hub community: Anchorage
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