ДЇor a chronological guide, see Timeline of Anchorage, Alaska.ДЄrchaeological evidence discovered at Beluga Point just south of Anchorage proper, along the Turnagain Arm, suggests that habitation of the Cook Inlet began 5,000 years ago by a tribe of Alutiiq Eskimos that arrived by kayak. Kiplinger has named it the United States' most tax-friendly city. ДЄnchorage has won the All-America City Award four times: in 1956, 1965, 1984вЂ“85, and 2002, from the National Civic League. For this reason, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is a common refueling stop for international cargo flights and home to a major FedEx hub, which the company calls a 'critical part' of its global network of services. Дue to its location, almost equidistant from New York City, Tokyo, and Frankfurt, Germany (across the Arctic Ocean), Anchorage lies within 10 hours by air of nearly 90% of the industrialized world. Because of this, less than 10% of the Municipality (or Muni) is populated, with the highest concentration of people in the 100 square-mile area that makes up the city proper, on a promontory at the headwaters of the inlet, commonly called Anchorage, the City of Anchorage, or the Anchorage Bowl. The municipal city limits span 1,961.1В sqВ mi (5,079.2В km 2), encompassing the urban core, a joint military base, several outlying communities, and almost all of Chugach State Park. In September 1975, the City of Anchorage merged with the Greater Anchorage Area Borough, creating the Municipality of Anchorage. ДЄnchorage is in Southcentral Alaska, at the terminus of the Cook Inlet, on a peninsula formed by the Knik Arm to the north and the Turnagain Arm to the south. At 1,706В sqВ mi (4,420В km 2) of land area, the city is the fourth-largest by area in the United States and larger than the smallest state, Rhode Island, which has 1,212В sqВ mi (3,140В km 2). The Anchorage metropolitan area, which includes Anchorage and the neighboring Matanuska-Susitna Borough, had a population of 398,328 in 2020, accounting for more than half the state's population. With a population of 291,247 in 2020, it is Alaska's most populous city and contains nearly 40% of the state's population. state of Alaska, on the West Coast of the United States.

Anchorage ( Dena'ina: Dgheyay Kaq' Dgheyaytnu) is a unified municipal consolidated city-borough in the U.S.

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