Alaska;
663,267 Sq. Miles, 683,678 pop.
Delaware;
2,487 Sq. Mile, 864,764 pop
Alaska sprawls across four time zones (even though three of these have been politically combined into one). It covers 57.5 degrees of longitude, which equals the span of land from Maine to Washington. North to south, Alaska extends through 20 degrees of latitude, from 51 to 71 degrees, which equals the span of land from a latitude south of London, England, to within nineteen degrees of the North Pole.
In addition, the coastline of Alaska exceeds the combined coastlines of all the other states in the U.S., including Hawaii.
Alaska has 8 national parks, of which 7 are larger than the entire state of Delaware. Denali NP is nearly four times the size of Delaware. The largest NP is more than six times the size of Delaware (Wrangell-St. Elias NP, at 8,323,148 acres, vs. 1,250,560 acres for the whole state of Delaware).