Anchorage, officially the Municipality of Anchorage, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alaska. With a population of 291,247 at the 2020 census, it contains nearly 40 percent of the state's population, and has more people than all of Northern Canada and Greenland combined. 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. At 1,706 sq mi of land area, the city is the fourth-largest by area in the U.S. Anchorage 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. First settled as a tent city near the mouth of Ship Creek in 1915 when construction on the Alaska Railroad began, Anchorage was incorporated as a city in November 1920.

Country: United States
State: Alaska
Borough: Anchorage
Settled: 1914
Incorporated: , November 23, 1920 (city), January 1, 1964 (borough), September 15, 1975, (unified municipality)
Named for: The anchorage at the mouth of Ship Creek
• Body: Anchorage Assembly
• Mayor: Dave Bronson
Population (2020): 291,247
• Estimate (2022): 287,145
• Rank: , 1st in Alaska, 73rd in the United States
• Urban: 249,252 (US: 164th)
• Metro: 398,807 (US: 137th)
Time zone: AKST (UTC-9)
• Summer (DST): AKDT (UTC-8)
ZIP code: 99501–99524, 99529–99530, 99599
Area code(s): 907
Geocode: 1398242
FIPS code: 02-03000
Climate: Dfc
Official Website: https://www.muni.org
Wikidata description: city in Alaska, United States of America
Wikidata id: Q39450
Wikidata label: Anchorage
Wikidata aliases: Array
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