5 facts about Alaska

 1. Alaska has more than three million lakes, about three thousand rivers, one hundred thousand glaciers and about seventy active volcanoes.

2. Annually in Alaska, there are approximately five thousand earthquakes.

3. In translation from Aleut "Alaska" means "whale spot" or "whale abundance". Another option is "big earth", "continent".

4. Twelve of the fifty cities of Alaska boasts of self-government, besides, there are almost two and a half hundred tribal governments in the state. And still, most of the territory of Alaska is not inhabited.

5. Alaska has its own North Pole, the so-called small town in the north of the state.