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Alaska (Alaska) is one of the mandates of the Pacific Region, which includes Alaska, in addition to the four states is the state of Washington and the state of Oregon, and California, and Hawaii. Alaska is the largest state in the United States of America and the rest of the equivalent area of five states, and more than twice the size of Texas a little. But it is offset by the large population of relatively small compared to other states in the population census of 1990, Alaska ranked 49 in terms of population in the United States Purchased by the United States from Czarist Russia Year (1284 -1 867 m) and two hundred seven million dollars has been formally adopted as a state in the January 3, 1959, where he was ranked 48 in the number of States at the time, it is often called Alolaskjon the rest of the Lower 48 States Bal. Believed that the word carved out of Alaska Oliaska word Alyeska, meaning greater land or Mother Earth in the language of the people Aloleut Eskimo. Site Located in the far north-west of the North American continent, bordered by Canada to the east, the Pacific and Arctic Oceans from the rest of the actors, and overlooking the Bering Strait, on the Soviet border for 80 miles, this distance is to present the Bering Strait. Climate Located Alaska inside offers the cold, so the winters are long dark low temperature freezing point much higher, and summer short-shine when the sun for more than three months, and the rain a little, and falls in summer, and natural vegetation varies from forest deciduous in the south to algae in the north Population The population in the year (1400 -1980 AD), 400.481 inhabitants, who are Europeans, and Indian Americans did, and African American, and the Pacific Islands, and the population is concentrated on the southern coast of East and South Central, and in the River Tanana where the town of Fairbanks . Human activity Began hunting fur animals, and then turn to gold mining, and diversity became agricultural, and active metallurgical, and went to the fishing and agricultural products is characterized by crops, quick maturing, including oats, Helm, and hay, and potatoes, along with livestock, and mineral resources represent in the oil and gas, gold and minerals