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.
It is the 7th largest country subdivision in the world. [citation needed] The area of Alaska is 18% of the area of the United States and 21% of the area of the contiguous United States The second largest state, Texas, is only 40% of the total area of the largest state, Alaska Rhode Island is the smallest state by total area and land area San Bernardino County is the largest county in the contiguous U.S. and is larger than each of the nine smallest states; it is larger than the four smallest states combined.