Background

Alaska is the largest state in the United States at 656,425 square miles, that’s approximately the same size as 4 Californias or 424.8 Rhode Islands. It is also the least populated state by acre at 1.2 people per square mile compared to California’s 234.4 people per square mile or New Jersey’s 1,171.1 people per square mile.
Alaska was bought from Russia in 1869 for $7.2 million, which is roughly 2 cents a square mile, or really, really, really cheap.
Much of Alaska is only accessible by airplane, in fact the capital, Juneau, is the only state capital in the US not accessible by road.

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