Legal Definition of pending. 1  1 : during the time of. 2  2 : while awaiting : in the time preceding held in escrow pending the outcome of the suit free pending trial.
Geography of Alaska. Land area: With 586,412 square miles, or about 365,000,000 acres, Alaska is the largest state in the union and; one-fifth the size of the lower 48 states.Area per person: Approximately .91 square mile per person.djacent salt water: North Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea, Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, Arctic Ocean. Alaska-Canada border: 1,538 miles long; length of boundary between the Arctic Ocean and Mount St. Elias, 647 miles; Southeast border with British Columbia and Yukon Territory, 710 miles; water boundary, 181 miles.
population size alaska contains 586000 square miles of land it is one fifth the size of the lower 48 states 488 times larger than rhode island two and a half times larger than texas and larger than the next three largest states in the u s combined alaska s population is 731449 2012 estimate nearly half of the state s residents live in anchorage alaska has 93 square miles for each person in the state by comparison new york has 003 square miles per person