Juneau, Alaska (usa)

Juneau, Alaska

Juneau, Alaska ranks 5,112th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Brignoles, Bella Vista, Buenos Aires, and Badhoevedorp. The most famous people from Juneau, Alaska are Lucia Berlin, Charles Melton, and Hilary Lindh. Juneau, Alaska has been the birth place of many actors, and writers. Juneau, Alaska is located in United States.

Juneau, officially the City and Borough of Juneau, is the capital of the U.S. state of Alaska, located along the Gastineau Channel and the Alaskan panhandle. Juneau was named the capital of Alaska in 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. On July 1, 1970, the City of Juneau merged with the City of Douglas and the surrounding Greater Juneau Borough to form the current consolidated city-borough, which ranks as the second-largest municipality in the United States by area and is larger than both Rhode Island and Delaware. Read more on Wikipedia