Fun Facts about Alaska

General
We have areas that get

• 24 hours of daylight
• 24 hours of night
• 3 million lakes

How big are we? Very big!

• 586,400 Square Miles
• We are 2 times the size of Texas
• We have 29 volcanoes
• 33,000 miles of coastline!
• 1,400 miles North to South
• 2,700 miles East to West
• Over 1/2 the world's Glaciers
• 55 miles east of Russia
• We are the only state to have coastlines on three different seas.
  Arctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea.