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Anchorage, officially the Municipality of Anchorage, is Alaska's most populous city with 291,247 residents at the 2020 census, comprising nearly 40 percent of the state's population and spanning 1,706 square miles to rank fourth-largest by area in the U.S. Located in Southcentral Alaska at the terminus of Cook Inlet on a peninsula between the Knik Arm and Turnagain Arm, the city was first settled as a tent city in 1915 during Alaska Railroad construction and incorporated in November 1920. Due to its strategic location nearly equidistant from New York City, Tokyo, and Murmansk over the North Pole, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport serves as a critical refueling hub for international cargo flights and houses a major FedEx distribution center within 10 hours by air of 90 percent of the inhabited global north. Named by Captain James Cook on May 15, 1778, when he anchored HMS Resolution at "Anchor Point" near Ship Creek, Anchorage has won the All-America City Award four times (1956, 1965, 1984-85, and 2002) and was named the United States' most tax-friendly city by Kiplinger. The area has been inhabited for approximately 5,000 years, with archaeological evidence at Beluga Point indicating Alutiiq settlement followed by Dena'ina Athabaskans around 500 AD. Fairbanks is Alaska's largest interior city and second most populous metropolitan area, with a city population of 32,515 and a borough population of 95,655 according to the 2020 census, located 196 miles south of the Arctic Circle. Founded by E.T. Barnette in August 1901 as a trading post on the Chena River, Fairbanks was incorporated as a city in November 1903 and experienced a gold rush boom that attracted thousands of miners. The city became a strategic military staging area during World War II and the Cold War, home to Fort Wainwright established in 1938, and later a major supply point for the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field discovered in 1968 and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Fairbanks is the coldest city in the United States with January temperatures averaging −8.3 °F, experiences one of Earth's most dramatic temperature inversions, and is home to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the founding campus of the University of Alaska system established in 1917. The city's economy is supported by military operations, oil industry services, tourism, and is served by Fairbanks International Airport located three miles southwest of downtown. Juneau is the capital of Alaska, located along the Gastineau Channel in Southeast Alaska and named after gold prospector Joe Juneau in the late 19th century; it became the state capital in 1906 when the territorial government moved from Sitka. As of the 2020 census, Juneau has a population of 32,255, making it Alaska's third-largest city and the sixth-least populous U.S. state capital, with an additional 16,000+ daily cruise ship visitors during peak season from May to September. Unique among American state capitals, Juneau has no road connections to the rest of Alaska or the contiguous United States due to extremely rugged terrain, making it functionally an island city where all goods arrive by plane or boat. The city sits at sea level beneath steep mountains 3,500 to 4,000 feet high, with the Juneau Icefield above containing approximately 30 glaciers, including the prominent Mendenhall Glacier which is gradually retreating. Downtown Juneau is home to the Alaska State Capitol, built in 1931 as the Federal and Territorial Building, and houses the state legislature, governor, and lieutenant governor.