List of Alaska state symbols

Location of the state of Alaska in the United States of America

The following is a list of symbols of the U.S. state of Alaska.

State Insignia

Type	Symbol	Year
Flag of Alaska	The North Star and the Big Dipper on a field of blue	1900
Seal	The Seal of the state of Alaska	1959
Motto	North to the future	1967

Flora

Type	Symbol	Year	Image
Flower	Forget-me-not	1917
Tree	Sitka Spruce	1962

Fauna

Type	Symbol	Year
Bird	Willow ptarmigan	1955
Dog	Alaskan Malamute	2010
Fish	King salmon	1962
Insect	Four-spot skimmer dragonfly	1995
Land mammal	Moose	1998
Marine mammal	Bowhead whale	1983

Geology

Type	Symbol	Year
Fossil	Woolly Mammoth	1986
Gem	Jade	1968
Mineral	Gold	1968

Type	Symbol	Year
Quarters	Alaska State Quarter	2008
Song	Alaska's Flag	1959
Sport	Dog Mushing	1972

External links

"State Symbols". Alaska State Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved 2008-07-07.

State of Alaska

Juneau (capital)

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Regions	Aleutian Islands Arctic The Bush Inside Passage Interior Kenai Peninsula Mat‑Su Valley North Slope Seward Peninsula Southcentral Southeast Southwest Tanana Valley Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta

Largest cities	Anchorage Badger Barrow Bethel Dillingham Fairbanks Homer Juneau Kenai Ketchikan Kodiak Kotzebue Nome Palmer Petersburg Seward Sitka Soldotna Unalaska (Dutch Harbor) Valdez Wasilla

Boroughs	Aleutians East Anchorage Bristol Bay Denali Fairbanks North Star Haines Juneau Kenai Peninsula Ketchikan Gateway Kodiak Island Lake and Peninsula Matanuska‑Susitna North Slope Northwest Arctic Petersburg Sitka Skagway Wrangell Yakutat Unorganized

Census Areas	Aleutians West Bethel Dillingham Hoonah–Angoon Kusilvak Nome Prince of Wales–Hyder Southeast Fairbanks Valdez–Cordova Yukon–Koyukuk

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