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Entity :
Alaska
Main prefix :
KL
Callsigns series excluded:
KL9KAA-KL9KHZ (Is reserved for assignment to U.S. personnel stationed in South Korea.)
Time in capital city :
-9 h
Time zones :
-10 h, -8 h (In Hyder city - the easternmost town in Alaska.), -9 h
Continent :
North America
ITU zone :
1, 2
CQ zone :
1
Metropole :
Alaska
Maps :
Coat of arms
Coin
Banknote
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Flag description
Dark blue, with eight five-pointed gold stars in the shape of "the Big Dipper" and a larger gold star representing the pole star, Polaris.
Alaska
Capital:
Juneau
Administrative divisions:
Alaska has 10 counties (named borough): Borough of Juneau, Borough of Sitka, Bristol Bay Borough, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Kodiak Island Borough, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, North Slope Borough and Northwest Arctic Borough;
and 18 Municipalities - Townships: Anchorage, Coffman Cove, Delta Junction, Dillingham, Fairbanks, Haines, Homer, Juneau, Kenai, Ketchikan, Kodiak, North Pole, Petersburg, Sitka, Soldotna, Unalaska, Valdez and Wrangell.
Population:
627,000
Languages:
English and Alaskan languages; including Eskimo (Inupiaq, Central Yup'ik, Siberian Yupik, Alutiiq), Aleut, Tlingit, Haida, and Athabaskan languages.
Geographic coordinates:
65° 30' N, 152° 00' W
Area total:
1,700,075 sq. km
Land area:
1,477,211 sq. km
Water area:
222,863 sq. km
Total land boundaries:
2,477 km
Borders with neighbor countries:
Canada 2,477 km
Coastline:
10,683 km
Elevation extremes:
Sea level 0 m - Mt McKinley 6194 m
Currency:
US Dollar (USD) In the town of Hyder (only accessible through the town of Stewart, British Columbia, Canada) - Canadian dollar (CAD);with the exception of the U.S. Post Office, which only accepts American currency.
Independence:
none (part of USA)
Government type:
Local Legislature and Government
Dependency status:
USA State