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Anchorage, AK, United States
Cradled by mountain ranges and riddled with walking trails, this city is the metropolitan and financial hub of the state. Yet Alaska's largest city is still home to the world's greatest per capita population of moose. |
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Far off the beaten path, Alaska has a history of being accessed by explorers with funding obtained from deep-pocketed investors. Although Russian explorers had settled in Alaska by 1784, Captain James Cook is credited with discovering Anchorage in... [ more ] |
| Since the 1970s, Anchorage has had an-oil driven economy, although its fastest growing industry nowadays is tourism. The number of visitors has doubled over the past 10 years, and more than 1.2 million people now travel to, or through, Anchorage... [ more ] |
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