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The largest of Alaska's 121 recorded places, ranked by population — 680,836 people across the state's towns and cities.
The essentials
Anchorage is the largest place we record in Alaska, with 289,600 residents. The three largest together hold 52% of the 680,836 people counted across the state's recorded towns and cities. That total sums listed places rather than measuring the state itself, so treat it as coverage, never as an official population.
All 121 places, ranked
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.