AKAlaska
Nobody has planted a flag here. It has been available since the map opened.
Claim it for
$5
The place
Joined 1959 · 49th state · Not yet a state in the Civil War · Alaska time
Alaska is not a big version of anywhere else. It has more coastline than the rest of the country combined, three million lakes, and about one road for every hundred miles of wilderness, so most of it is reached by boat or float plane or not at all. The oil dividend pays residents to live there and the winter dares them to. Go for Denali and the Kenai Fjords, but the thing people underestimate is the light: summer days that never properly end, and a January where the sun clears the horizon for a few hours and then gives up.
More coastline than all forty-nine other states combined.
Eat
Salmon, every way there is
Drink
Alaskan Brewing Co.
Listen
Portugal. The Man
Bird
Willow ptarmigan
Flower
Forget-me-not
Tree
Sitka spruce
Grows
Potatoes, Barley, Hay
National parks
- Denali
- Gates of the Arctic
- Glacier Bay
- Katmai
- Kenai Fjords
- Kobuk Valley
- Lake Clark
- Wrangell–St. Elias
The actual state · 2025
- Population
- 737,270
- Land area
- 571,390 mi²
- GDP per head
- $101,742
- Median household
- $96,336
- Joined
- Joined 1959
- Civil War
- Not yet a state
Largest cities
- 1Anchorage290K
- 2Fairbanks32K
- 3Juneau32K
- 4Wasilla10K
- 5Sitka8K
Race
- White61.9%
- Native15.6%
- Two or more10.6%
Hispanic or Latino8.2%
Counted across all races, so it overlaps the figures above.
No history yet
This one is still on the board. $5 and it is yours, and then it is somebody else's problem to take it back.