A·las·ka
 Alaska
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Alaska is one of the fifty states that make up the United States of America. Alaska is very far north, and it is separate from the main part of the United States. Alaska shares a border with Canada. A short way to write Alaska is AK.
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Alaskan (adj.), Alaskan (n.) |
Alaska is the English spelling of an Aleut word that means "great land."