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Juneau, Alaska
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Juneau, Alaska
The
City and Borough of Juneau
(;
Tlingit
:
Dzánti K'ihéeni
[]) is the
capital city
of
Alaska
. It is a unified
municipality
located on the
Gastineau Channel
in the
Alaskan panhandle
, and it is the second
largest city in the United States by area
. Juneau has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of what was then the
District of Alaska
was moved from
Sitka
as dictated by the
U.S. Congress
in 1900. The municipality unified on July 1, 1970, when the city of Juneau merged with the city of
Douglas
and the surrounding Greater Juneau
Borough
to form the current municipality, which is larger by area than both
Rhode Island
and
Delaware
.
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