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Yet Alaska is home to only 710,000 people, and half of them live in Anchorage, the state’s largest city. Only 20 percent of Alaska is accessible by road. Alaska has one lowest tax burden in the United States and no state sales tax. You probably know that Mt. McKinley –rising to 20,320 feet — is the highest peak in North America. Locally, it’s known as Denali, which means the Great One in Athabasca, the native language.   

Alaska is larger than most of the world’s countries. The state of Alaska is more twice the size of Texas. It’s bigger than the 22 smallest states added together. 

What you may not realize is that Alaska is home to 17 of the 20 tallest mountains in North America. While relatively few people live in Alaska, significant populations of wildlife do exist here.  Kodiak — Alaska’s largest island — is home to the world’s largest bear species, the Kodiak Brown Bear. While ice covers only five percent of Alaska’s surface, the state contains more than 100,000 glaciers.   When sea water undermines the ice fronts on these glaciers, giant blocks of ice break loose and crash into the water, known as “calving”.