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Alaska is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.

The Canadian administrative divisions of British Columbia and Yukon border the state to the east; its most extreme western part is Attu Island; it has a maritime border with Russia to the west across the Bering Strait.

To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort seas–the southern parts of the Arctic Ocean.

The Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest.

Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area, the 3rd least populous and the least densely populated of the 50 United States.

Approximately half of Alaska's residents (the total estimated at 738,432 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015) live within the Anchorage metropolitan area.

Alaska's economy is dominated by the fishing, natural gas, and oil industries, resources which it has in abundance.

Military bases and tourism are also a significant part of the economy.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (also referred to as UAF or Alaska) is a public research university in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States.

It is a flagship campus of the University of Alaska System.

UAF is a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant institution, and it also participates in the sun-grant program through Oregon State University.

UAF was established in 1917 and opened for classes in 1922.

UAF was originally named Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines and later as the University of Alaska from 1925 to 1975.

The Arctic (or) is a polar region located at the northernmost part of Earth.

The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean, adjacent seas, and parts of Alaska (United States), Canada, Finland, Greenland (Denmark), Iceland, Norway, Russia and Sweden.

Land within the Arctic region has seasonally varying snow and ice cover, with predominantly treeless permafrost-containing tundra.

Arctic seas contain seasonal sea ice in many places.

An ethnic group or ethnicity is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities, such as common ancestral, language, social, cultural or national experiences.

Unlike other social groups (wealth, age, hobbies), ethnicity is often an inherited status based on the society in which one lives.

In some cases, it can be adopted if a person moves into another society.

Membership of an ethnic group tends to be defined by a shared cultural heritage, ancestry, origin myth, history, homeland, language or dialect, symbolic systems such as religion, mythology and ritual, cuisine, dressing style, art, and physical appearance.

A nation (from Latin: natio, "people, tribe, kin, genus, class, flock") is a large group or collective of people with common characteristics attributed to them — including language, traditions, mores (customs), habitus (habits), and ethnicity.

By comparison, a nation is more impersonal, abstract, and overtly political than an ethnic group.

It is a cultural-political community that has become conscious of its autonomy, unity, and particular interests.