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Alaska (state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 65 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 65.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 153 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -153.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: One of 2 states not contiguous with others; presumably inhabited by earliest migrants to N America from Asia, from whom Tlingit and Tinneh Indians descended; was home to Eskimos and Aleuts from 8th mill. BCE; Russians arrived 18th cen.; bought by USA in 1867. |
Names: |
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| Alaska (preferred,C,V,English-P)
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............ | name derives from native Aleutian word meaning "mainland" |
| Alaska (Spanish)
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| Alaska (French)
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| AK (C,V)
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| אלסקה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Аляскæ (C,U,Ossetian/Ossetic)
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| Alaeksa (C,U)
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| ‘Ālaka (C,U,Hawaiian)
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| Alakskak (C,U)
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| Alaksu (C,U)
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| Alasca (C,U,Latin)
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| Alasca (Portuguese)
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| Alasca (Irish Gaelic)
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| Alasca (Scots Gaelic)
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| Alasca (Galician)
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| Alasca (Piemontese)
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| Alasca (Romansh)
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| Ałasca (C,U,Venetian)
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| Alaschka (C,U)
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| Àláskà (C,U,Igbo)
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| Aļaska (C,U,Latvian)
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| Â-lâ-sṳ̂-kâ (C,U,Chinese, Hakka)
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| Alaska suyu (C,U,Quechuan)
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| Alaska suyu (Ayamará)
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| Alasko (C,U,Esperanto)
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| Alaszka (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Aleska (C,U,Samogitian)
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| Aliaksa (C,U)
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| Aliaska (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Aljaška (C,U,Slovak)
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| Aljaška (Czech)
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| Aljaska (C,U,Croatian)
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| Aljaska (Bosnian)
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| Aljaska (Slovene)
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| Alyaska (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Alýaska (C,U,Turkmen)
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| Alyaska Shitati (C,U,Uyghur)
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| Anian (C,U)
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| Estado de Alaska (C,U,Spanish)
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| Gamaland (C,U)
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| Hakʼaz Dineʼé Bikéyah Hahoodzo (C,U,Navajo)
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| Lalaskän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Land of the Midnight Sun (C,U,English)
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| New Albion (C,U)
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| Sewards Folly (C,U)
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| State of Alaska (C,U,English)
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| Territory of Alaska (C,U)
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| Аляска (C,U,Tatar)
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| Аляска (Tajik)
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| Аляска (Chuvash)
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| Аляска (Bashkir)
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| Аляска (Lezgian)
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| Аляска (Chechen)
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| Аляска (Mongolian)
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| Аляска (Kazakh)
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| Аляска (Kyrgyz)
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| Аляска (Bulgarian)
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| Аляска (Russian)
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| Аляска (Ukrainian)
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| Аляска (Yakut)
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| Аляска (Moksha)
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| Аляска (Russia Buriat)
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| Аляска (Udmurt)
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| Аляска (Western Mari)
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| الاسکا (C,U,Panjabi, Western)
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| الاسکا (Urdu)
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| آلاسکا (C,U,Mazanderani)
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| آلاسکا (Persian-Farsi)
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| آلاسکا (Northern Luri)
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| Аляск (C,U,Kalmyk)
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| รัฐอะแลสกา (C,U,Thai)
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| ಅಲಾಸ್ಕ (C,U,Kannada)
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| آلاسکا ایالتی (C,U,Azerbaijani, South)
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| 阿拉斯加州 (C,U,Chinese, Gan)
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| 阿拉斯加州 (Chinese, Yue)
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| 阿拉斯加州 (Chinese)
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| الاسكا (C,U,Arabic, Egyptian)
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| Аляске (C,U)
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| అలాస్కా (C,U,Telugu)
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| अलास्का (C,U,Marathi)
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| अलास्का (Sanskrit)
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| अलास्का (Hindi)
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| अलास्का (Pali)
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| अलास्का (Nepali)
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| अलास्का (Bihari languages)
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| अलास्का (Newari)
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| Ալյասկա (C,U,Armenian)
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| အလက်စကာပြည်နယ် (C,U,Burmese)
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| ඇලස්කාව (C,U,Sinhala)
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| Аљаска (C,U,Serbian)
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| אלאסקע (C,U,Yiddish)
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| Αλάσκα (C,U,Greek)
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| ალასკა (C,U,Mingrelian)
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| ალასკა (Georgian)
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| አላስካ (C,U,Amharic)
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| Штат Аляска (C,U,Belarusian)
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| அலாஸ்கா (C,U,Tamil)
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| 알래스카 주 (C,U,Korean)
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| আলাস্কা (C,U,Bengali)
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| আলাস্কা (Bishnupriya Manipuri)
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| ଆଲାସ୍କା (C,U,Odia)
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| アラスカ州 (C,U,Japanese)
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| 阿拉斯加 (C,U,Chinese, Wu)
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| അലാസ്ക (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ئەلاسکا (C,U,Central Kurdish)
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| ألاسكا (C,U,Arabic)
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| अलास्का (C,U,Kashmiri)
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| ᐊᓛᓯᑲ (C,U,Inuktitut)
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| ਅਲਾਸਕਾ (C,U,Panjabi, Eastern)
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| ܐܠܐܣܟܐ (C,U,Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE))
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| Алјаска (C,U,Macedonian)
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| Russian America (H,V)
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Place Types: |
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| state (preferred, B) |
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since January 3, 1959 |
| first level subdivision (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Juneau .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, North and Central America, United States, Alaska, Juneau division) [7016116] |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Hakʼaz Dineʼé Bikéyah Hahoodzo.......... |
[VP] |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 5879092 |
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