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The Municipality of Anchorage ( Tanaina: Dgheyay Kaq'; Dgheyaytnu) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Alaska by population. With a population of 291,247 at the 2020 census, [5] [9] it contains nearly 40 percent of the state's population, and has more people than all of Northern Canada and Greenland combined.
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Anchorage was originally settled as a tent city near the mouth of Ship Creek in 1915, and a planned townsite was platted alongside the bluff to the south. Anchorage was mostly a company town for the Alaska Railroad for its first several decades of existence.
History. Utilities. Climate. References. Anchorage, Alaska. Coordinates: 61°13′00″N 149°53′37″W. Anchorage is the largest city in Alaska, United States. With a population of 291,247 residents (as of 2020), [5] it makes up nearly two-fifths of the state's population. History.
- Anchorage
- United States
- 1914
- Alaska
Mar 14, 2024 · Anchorage, city (municipality), south-central Alaska, U.S. Lying at the base of the Chugach Mountains, it is a port at the head of Cook Inlet (a bay of the Pacific Ocean). In 1835 Russians established a mission across the inlet from the area that constitutes the modern city of Anchorage.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Anchorage, Alaska's largest city Fairbanks, Alaska's second-largest city and by a significant margin the largest city in Alaska's interior Juneau, Alaska's third-largest city and its capital Bethel, the largest city in the Unorganized Borough and in rural Alaska Homer, showing (from bottom to top) the edge of downtown, its airport and the Spit ...
- 665,384 sq mi (1,723,337 km²)
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Expert Advice. Anchorage History. Gold Lures First Settlers. Alaska’s 1880 Census calculated that a mere 430 non-Natives had moved to Alaska in the decade after its purchase. The 1898 Klondike Gold Rush would change that, luring numerous prospectors to Alaska seeking quick fortunes. By 1910, 40,000 non-Natives had found their way north.
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Anchorage is a city — a real city with freeways, traffic, giant malls, tall buildings, crime and most other things one expects to find in an American city. It is an important hub and the gateway to other marvelous areas including the Alaskan Interior and the Kenai Peninsula, but is not really a tourist destination.
