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"the forty ninth state"

   quarter struck by
  the mint on
 July 10, 2008

Alaska
The quarter's stateside face depicts a mama Grizzly bear with a salmon  in her mouth and an offspring undernearth.  "The Great Land" eludes to the last frontier. The backdrop is a small waterfall with spruce trees and the north star shinning down. These all symbolize Alaska's vastness, dirverse enviornment,  and it's fishing industry.
Admitted to Union: January 3, 1959 Bits of History
Update:
Here's a stickler. The United States has 19,924 km of coastline boundaries and 12,248 km of land boundaries. The land boundaries are with three countrys. What are they?Alaska
Village of Little Diomede in the Bering Strait of Alaska. One mile to Russia and it's cool. The inside passage is warmer.
Order Admitted: 49
Capital: Juneau
Largest City: Anchorage
Nickname: Last Frontier
State Bird: Alaska Willow Ptarmigan
State Flower: Blue Forget-Me-Not
State Tree: Sitka Spruce
State Motto: "North to the Future"
State Name Origin:
The Russians adopted the word, meaning "great lands" of "land that is not an island," from
the Aleutian word alakashak.

Fun State Facts:
Alaska has a population of 609,200, 48th in the nation. Its land area is 570,374 square miles, 1st

in the nation. The highest point is Mount McKinley at 20,320 feet above sea level. The answer
to Bits of History question 2 on the coin album is Juneau. Barrow is the northern most city in the
United States. The sun never sets for 82 days in the summer and never rises for 60 days in the
winter. William Seward, the Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln, purchased Alaska from
Russia in 1867 for 2 cents an acre. Eareckson Air Station is located about 1500 miles southwest
of Anchorage. Going from Barrow to Eareckson is like traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago.

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