Alaska
Fact File
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