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Alaska is USA
by rgrieselhuber 2y ago
Alaska is USA
- drpossum 2y agoThank you for clarifying.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 2y agoYou may not be aware, but Alaska is not part of the blob of 48 contiguous states. If you want to get from the main body of the US to Alaska over land, you'll have to cross Canadian territory.
- quesera 2y agoHN title says "... road access from USA to Alaska". "Contiguous USA to Alaska" would be fine, but ~"USA to USA" is poorly-worded. Not confusing, mind you. Just poorly-worded! If you spend any time living in Hawaii or Alaska, and then move to the mainland, you will receive a shockingly high frequency of questions about what it's like to move to the US. GP might have similar experiences. For non-US readers, or for the geopolitically-unaware, Hawaii and Alaska became US territories in the late 1800s, but didn't become states until 1959.
- rgrieselhuber 2y agoAnd Alaska is still in the USA, so my critique of the title stands. If it had said 48 contiguous states it would have been accurate.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 2y agoThe context made it perfectly clear without additional words.
- rgrieselhuber 2y agoThis is HN, the whole point of this site is to comment on every little detail on anything we see.
- recursive 2y agoAnd you can drive your car there without paying a toll to Canada if you can do it without touching their soil.
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