What do you know about Alaska? Learn all about its land, products and cultures.

Nickname: The Last Frontier

Motto: "North to the future"

Population: 626,932 as of 2000

Size: 570,374 square miles, about 2 1/2 times the size of Texas

Capital: Juneau

State Sport: dog mushing

Products: seafood, timber, fertilizer, zinc, ore, coal, oil

Languages: English and 20 native Alaskan languages, including Inupiaq and Yup'ik

Climate: cold winters and mild summers; frigid winters inland and in Arctic regions