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    Anchorage, Alaska

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    Municipality of Anchorage
    Downtown Anchorage Skyline
    Downtown Anchorage Skyline
    Flag of Municipality of Anchorage
    Flag
    Official seal of Municipality of Anchorage
    Seal
    Nickname(s): The City of Lights and Flowers
    Motto: Big Wild Life
    Location in the state of Alaska
    Location in the state of Alaska
    Municipality of Anchorage (Alaska)
    Municipality of Anchorage
    Municipality of Anchorage
    Location of Anchorage in the state of Alaska, USA
    Coordinates: 61°13′06″N 149°53′57″W / 61.21833, -149.89917
    Country United States
    State Alaska
    Government
     - Mayor Mark Begich (D)
    Area
     - Municipality 1,961.1 sq mi (5,079.2 km²)
     - Land 1,697.2 sq mi (4,395.8 km²)
     - Water 263.9 sq mi (683.4 km²)
    Elevation 102 ft (115 m)
    Population (2006)
     - Municipality 282,813
     - Density 164.2/sq mi (63.4/km²)
     - Metro 359,180
    Time zone AKST (UTC-9)
     - Summer (DST) AKDT (UTC-8)
    Area code(s) 907
    FIPS code 02-03000
    GNIS feature ID 1398242
    Website: [2]

    Anchorage (officially called the Municipality of Anchorage) is a consolidated city-borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. With 282,813 municipal residents,[1] (359,180 residents within the Metropolitan Statistical Area),[2] it is Alaska's largest city and constitutes more than two-fifths of the state's total population. Anchorage has been named All-America City four times, in 1956, 1965, 1984/85, and 2002, by the National Civic League.[3]

    Geography and climate

    Geography

    Anchorage is located in Southcentral Alaska. It lies slightly farther north than Oslo, Helsinki and St. Petersburg. It is northeast of the Alaska Peninsula, Kodiak Island, and Cook Inlet, due north of the Kenai Peninsula, northwest of Prince William Sound and Alaska Panhandle, and nearly due south of Mount McKinley/Denali.

    The city is on a strip of coastal lowland and extends up the lower alpine slopes of the Chugach Mountains. To the south is Turnagain Arm, a fjord that has some of the world's highest tides. Knik Arm, another tidal inlet, lies to the west and north. The Chugach Mountains on the east form a boundary to development, but not to the city limits, which encompass part of the wild alpine territory of Chugach State Park.

    The city's seacoast consists mostly of treacherous mudflats. Newcomers and tourists are warned not to walk in this area because of extreme tidal changes and sticky mud.

    To the north is Matanuska-Susitna Borough (Mat-Su Valley, or just "the valley"), which is included with the MOA as a metropolitan area by the US Census Bureau. Although the Mat-Su is a "bedroom community" for Anchorage, the towns, exurbs, farms,and homesteads there have varied local cultures quite distinct from that of Anchorage proper. Between metropolitan Anchorage and the valley the communities of Eagle River and Chugiak, although part of the MOA, also have distinct identities.

    According to the United States Census Bureau, the municipality has a total area of 1,961.1 square miles (5,079.2 km²), of which 1,697.2 square miles (4,395.8 km²) is land and 263.9 square miles (683.4 km²) is water. The total area is 13.46% water. The area of Anchorage is thus larger than that of Rhode Island.[4]

    Adjacent boroughs and census areas

    National protected area

    Climate

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    source: USTravelWeather.com