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Alaska is the northernmost and westernmost state of the U nited States, and the largest
state of the Union. It occupies the extreme northwestern region of the North American
continent and is separated from Asia by the 82-km- (51-mi-) wide Bering Strait. Alaska
has belonged to the United States since 1867, when it was bought from Russia by
Secretary of State William H. Seward. The United States paid Russia $7.2 million for the
rights of the Russian American Company in Alaska.
By 1900 Alaska had become a land of golden opportunity as one gold discovery followed
another and prospectors arrived by the tens of thousands. Although the gold rush was
over within a few' years, many people settled in Alaska, and fishing developed as an
important industry. On January 3, 1959, Alaska was admitted to the Union as the 49th
state.
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Florida leads all other states in the production of citrus fruits. Each year the state
accounts for two-thirds of the total U.S. citrus crop. It ranks first in the nation in the
production of oranges and grapefruit. Other kinds of citrus fruits grown incl ude
tangerines, tangelos, and limes. Sugarcane is extremely sensitive to frost, and where
frosts occur, it must be replanted every year. The southernmost part of Florida is one of
the few places in the mainland U nited States where such replanting is not n ecessary. Six
to seven crops may be obtained from one planting. The city of Clewiston, on the southern
shore of Lake Okeechobee, is the center of Florida’s sugarcane cultivation.
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Utah is the state in the western United States, partly in the Rocky Mount ains. Its great
variety of landscapes includes high wooded mountains, lakes, valley oases, barren salt
flats, deserts, and a wild plateau country with strange rock formations and rainbow -
colored canyons. The Middle Rocky Mountains, in northeastern Utah, in clude the Uinta
and the Wasatch mountain ranges. The Wasatch Range is noted for its majestic granite
peaks, deep canyons carved by valley glaciers, and hundreds of glacial lakes. The older
Uinta Mountains, or Uintas, are one of the few major ranges in the Rocky Mountains that
extend in an east-to-west direction. The Double Arch sits in a section of Utah’s Arches
National Park known as the Windows. The park contains the world's largest concentration
of natural stone arches.
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