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 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 
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 ITU zone
 1, 2 
 CQ zone
 1 
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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.
 
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 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
 
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