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Alaska has about 640,000 residents occupying 570,374 square miles, or 365,039,104 acres of land. Alaska is the largest state, about 2.3 times the size of Texas and about one-fifth the size of the lower 48 states. Alaska is the largest state in the United States. McKinley is in Alaska Range and is North America's highest peak at 20,320 feet. Seward's Day commemorates the signing of the treaty by which the United States bought Alaska from Russia, signed on March 30, 1867. State Seal:The state seal was originally designed in 1910 while Alaska was a territory and not a state. The trees symbolize Alaska's wealth of forests, and the farmer, his horse, and the three shocks of wheat represent Alaskan agriculture. The North Star is for the future of the State of Alaska, the most northerly of the Union.