Anchorage is a unified home
rule municipality in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is
the northernmost city in the United States with more than 100,000 residents and
the largest community in North America north of the 60th parallel. With an
estimated 298,610 residents in 2012 (and 380,821 residents within its
Metropolitan Statistical Area, which combines Anchorage with the neighboring
Matanuska-Susitna Borough), it is Alaska's most populous city and constitutes
more than 40 percent of the state's total population; among the 50 states, only
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