Capital City: Juneau
Nickname: Last Frontier, Great Land, Land of the Midnight Sun
Motto: North To The Future
Statehood: January 3, 1959 (49th)
Origin of State's Name: Russian version of Aleutian word "Alakshak" meaning "great lands" or "peninsula.
Largest Cities: Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Sitka
Area:570,833 sq. mi., Largest state
State Bird:Willow Ptarmigan
State Flower: Forget Me Not (myosotis alpestris)
State Tree: Sitka spruce (picea sitchensis)
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