Alaska - the largest state on the territory of the United States, on the northwestern edge of North America. It includes the homonymous Peninsula, Aleutian Islands, a narrow strip of the Pacific coast, as well as the islands of the Alexander Archipelago along the western Canada and the mainland.
The state is located in the extreme north-west of the continent, separated from the Chukchi Peninsula (Russia) by the Bering Strait, in the east it borders on Canada, the west along a small section of the Bering Strait - on Russia. It consists of the mainland and a large number of islands: Archipelago of Alexander, the Aleutian Islands, Pribilof Islands, Kodiak Island, and the island of St. Lawrence. The state is washed by the Arctic and Pacific Oceans. On the Pacific Coast Alaska Range is found; the central part is the plateau which is 1200 m high in the east and only up to 600 m in the west, turning into the lowlands. Brooks Range is located in the north followed by the Arctic lowlands.