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Alaska Real Estate
For many who live in "the lower 48" when they think of Alaska Real Estate they have an image of an igloo with an endless vista of drifting snow. The reality is that Alaska with its 626,932 residents has a broad range of residential properties including beautiful, modern homes that would rival those of Atlanta, Salt Lake City, or Denver.
Below you will find more information about Alaska and a list of towns and cities for more detail.
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Alaska Geography
Alaska is the largest state in the United States in terms of land area, 615,230 square miles. If you superimposed Alaska on the Lower 48, Alaska would stretch from Minnesota to Texas, and from Georgia to California.
Alaska has four geographic areas:
- South Central Alaska is the southern coastal region with towns, cities, and petroleum industrial plants
- Alaska Panhandle is home to towns, tidewater glaciers and extensive forests
- Alaska Interior has big rivers, such as the Yukon River and the Kuskokwim River, as well as Arctic tundra lands and shorelines
- Alaskan Bush is the remote, uncrowded part of the state
Alaska, with its numerous islands, has nearly 34,000 miles of coastline. The island chain extending west from the southern tip of Alaska is called the Aleutian Islands. Unimak Island in the Aleutians is home to Mt. Shishaldin, a moderately active volcano that rises to 9,980ft above sea level.
Much of Alaska is managed by the federal government as national forests, national parks, and national wildlife refuges. There are places in Alaska that are general public lands (BLM land) but they are arguably more spectacular than many national parks in the Lower 48. Many of Alaska’s state parks would be national parks if they were in other states.
Alaska Economy
The state’s 1999 total gross state product was $26 billion, placing it 46th in the nation. Its per-capita Income for 2000 was $30,064, 15th in the nation. Alaska's main agriculture output is seafood, although nursery stock, dairy products, vegetables, and livestock are produced and used internally. Manufacturing is limited, with most foodstuffs and general goods imported from elsewhere. Employment is primarily in government and industries such as natural resource extraction, shipping, and transportation. There is also a small but growing service and tourism sector. Its industrial outputs are crude petroleum, natural gas, coal, gold, precious metals, zinc and other mining, seafood processing, timber and wood products.
Alaska has various transportation options. Some of Alaska is connected by roads to the highways of Canada and the rest of the United States. These places are "on the road system". Along the Pacific Ocean, many places have freight and passenger service from ocean-going ships. Most places have air service, ranging from jets on tarmac to floatplanes on lakes.
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