{"id":3637,"count":11,"description":"With a land area of over 1,400,000 km\u00b2, Alaska is the largest state in the USA and occupies a good fifth of the area of the United States of America. The east-west extension is more than 3,800 kilometers - the north-south extension more than 2,200 kilometers. In 1867, under the leadership of the US Secretary of State William H. Seward, the USA bought Alaska from the Russian Empire for 7.2 million dollars. Alaska is called Last Frontier and is the northernmost and westernmost state of the United States. The largest river or stream in the country is the Yukon River, the highest mountain at 6,190 meters is the Denali. It is often thought that Anchorage, the most famous and largest city in Alaska, is also the capital - but since Alaska became the 49th state in 1959, the small town of Juneau has been the capital of Alaska. It is home to the Alaska State Capitol, the Alaska State Museum and the main campus of the University of Alaska Southeast.","link":"https:\/\/one-million-places.com\/en\/north-america\/united-states\/state-alaska","name":"Alaska","slug":"state-alaska","taxonomy":"category","parent":3636,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/one-million-places.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/3637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/one-million-places.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/one-million-places.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one-million-places.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/3636"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/one-million-places.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}