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General Information
Nickname: Last Frontier
State bird: Willow Ptarmigan
State flower: Forget-Me-Not
Capital: Juneau
Date of admission to the Union: 3rd Jan 1959
Population: 626,932 (2000)
Population density: 0.4/sq km
2000 total overseas arrivals/US ranking: 52,000/35
Time: Alaska (GMT - 9) in the greater part of the State; Hawaii-Aleutian (GMT - 10) west of 169° 30’. Daylight Saving Time is observed.
The State: The largest state in the USA, Alaska is a sparsely-populated land of immense natural beauty with 3000 rivers, three million lakes and more than 5000 glaciers against a backdrop of commanding mountains and thousands of square miles of dense forests.
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