Alaska

Facts

What the numbers say about Alaska

• Alaska covers 16% of the area of the United States and ranks 48th of 51 by population, against 1st by area.
• It would take 6.29 states and districts the size of Alaska to cover the United States.
• Alaska holds 0.2% of the 331.4 million people that Wikidata’s 2020 figures give for the 51 states and districts together: about 1 in 452.
• The smallest, Washington, D.C., is less than 0.1% of the size of Alaska; the next largest, Texas, is 46%.
• Closest in size within the United States: Texas (685,000 km², 2.20×) and California (410,000 km², 3.67×).
• Counted as a country, Alaska would be larger than 220 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 20th by area, between Mongolia (1,565,000 km²) and Peru (1,290,000 km²).
• With 733,000 people it would rank 166th of 238 by population.
• Alaska has 0.5 people per km².
• That makes Alaska the 51st most densely populated of the 51 states and districts, 1.4% of the average for the United States (35 per km²).
• Alaska has 8,726× the room per person of Washington, D.C., the most crowded of the 51: 0.5 against 4,251 people per km².
• On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 64°N is drawn about 5.2× too large in area, so Alaska looks bigger there than it is.
• Laid out flat, Alaska stretches about 1,930 km north to south and 3,640 km east to west.
• Our measured 1,505,000 km² is 12% below Wikidata's official figure of 1,718,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

Beside the regions of other countries

The closest region by area and by people in each of the other countries that have regional pages here, within a factor of 2. All 395 regions side by side.

• ChinaAreaXinjiang0.92× · 1,630,000 km²Peoplenone within 2×
• IndiaAreanone within 2×PeopleSikkim1.11× · 658,000 (2011)
• GermanyAreanone within 2×PeopleBremen1.06× · 693,000 (2022)
• FranceAreanone within 2×PeopleRéunion (France)83% · 881,000 (2022)
• ItalyAreanone within 2×PeopleUmbria83% · 882,000 (2019)
• SpainAreanone within 2×PeopleNavarre1.08× · 678,000 (2024)
• JapanAreanone within 2×PeopleTokushima1.02× · 722,000 (2020)
• BrazilAreaAmazonas0.96× · 1,565,000 km²PeopleAmapá1.00× · 734,000 (2022)
• CanadaAreaQuebec1.00× · 1,506,000 km²PeopleNew Brunswick0.95× · 776,000 (2021)
• AustraliaAreaNorthern Territory1.12× · 1,348,000 km²PeopleTasmania (Australia)1.36× · 540,000 (2020)
• MexicoAreanone within 2×PeopleColima1.00× · 731,000 (2020)
• ThailandAreanone within 2×PeopleLampang1.01× · 729,000 (2020)

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