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Alaska is the largest state in the United States. If we compare Alaska with England, Germany, Japan and France, we will understand an interesting point. All of these are global powers, each of which has a gross national income of trillions of dollars and a population of at least 65 million. Now, the interesting thing is that Alaska is not only bigger than each of these countries alone, but also about 12 and a half percent bigger than the total of all four of them. In fact, Alaska is smaller than only 15 of the 193 recognized nations of the United Nations. With these interpretations, you might think that the population of Alaska should be like countries like England, not just like other US states. But this idea is completely wrong. Alaska is 6 times the size of England, but its population is about 98% less with 733,000 people. Even the relatively small state of Pennsylvania has 20 times the population of Alaska. In fact, the population of Alaska is more like the populous cities of America than the mighty states.