As the following picture indicates, Alaska can be divided in the following climate regions: South Central, West Coast, Western Maritime, Easter Maritime, Interior and Arctic:
Looking at the map, we are able to understand why Alaska belonged to Russia: because was close located by the east side of Russia.
Regarding population distribution, we have about 65% of the entire Alaskan population living in the urban area (2). The total population is 698,473 as of July 1st, 2009 (3), which ranks Alaska as the 47th state based on the population number. The level of poverty is 7.7% in 1999, which is really low in contrast with the level from 1969 census, when the level of poverty was 35%.
The level of poverty from some states are as high as 25-50%. For example, some parts from California have a poverty rate of ~20%-28% and some parts of Texas has a level as high as 50%. I was wondering why the level of poverty in Alaska is so low? One thing is for sure: Alaska’s agriculture is limited because of weather’s temperature. But how can they keep up and provide jobs for majority of population? Fish industry can provide some jobs, but other than that what other opportunity are up there? For curiosity, I searched on the Internet and I found that tourism provide a good number of jobs as well as petroleum industry…
Resources:
http://www.allcountries.org/uscensus/759_persons_below_poverty_level_by_state.html
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