Facts about Alaska

• Capital:Juneau
  Date of Statehood: January 3, 1959
• Alaska meaning "great lands" or "peninsula."
• Alaska has none border state
• State Motto: North to the Future
• State bird: Willow Ptarmigan
• State fish: King Salmon
• State flower: wild/native Forget-Me-Not
• State gem: Jade
• State insect: Four-spot skimmer dragonfly
• State land mammal: Moose
• State marine mammal: Bowhead Whale
• State song: "Alaska's Flag"
• State mineral: Gold
• State sport: Dog Mushing
• State tree: Sitka Spruce
  
  





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