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the Anchorage metropolitan area in a sentence
1. Approximately half of Alaska's residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area.
2. The Anchorage Metropolitan Area is the largest metropolitan area in the zone.
3. There are plans to provide commuter rail service within the Anchorage metropolitan area (Anchorage to Mat-Su Valley via Eagle River, north Anchorage to south Anchorage) but that requires additional tracks be laid due to a heavy freight schedule.
4. The Anchorage metropolitan area, which includes Anchorage and the neighboring Matanuska-Susitna Borough, had a population of 396,317 in 2019, accounting for more than half the state's population.
5. When seats from the neighboring Mat-Su Borough are added, more than half the Alaska state legislature comes from the Anchorage metropolitan area.
6. According to the policy committee of the Anchorage Metropolitan Area Transportation Solutions (AMATS), “congestion on the Glenn Highway has worsened steadily as the Mat-Su Borough and Chugiak-Eagle River have claimed larger shares of regional growth” than has the City of Anchorage.
7. Wasilla is the largest city in the borough and a part of the Anchorage metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 399,148 in 2018.
8. Approximately half of Alaska's residents live within the Anchorage metropolitan area.
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- The state capital
- the second-largest city
- more territory
- various indigenous peoples
- the entry point
- the Bering land bridge
- the current state
- this distant possession
- its sale
- several administrative changes
- the 49th state
- the smallest state economies
- a diversified economy
- United States armed forces bases
- more than half the state
- federally owned public land
- national forests
- wildlife refuges
- Alaska's indigenous population
- any U.S. state
- two dozen native languages
- Alaskan Natives
- considerable influence
- local and state politics
- "Alaska
- the Russian colonial period
- an Aleut-language idiom
- the mainland
- the action
- the northernmost and westernmost state
- the most easterly longitude
- the only non-contiguous U.S. state
- continental North America
- (800 km
- the continental U.S.
- colloquial use
- the contiguous U.S.
- the North American continent
- the North American highway system
- Canada's Yukon