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.
The largest 12 districts, whether based on land area only or combined land and water area, are in Alaska. The largest district, North Slope Borough, AK, is almost 95,000 square miles when water area is included and 88,700 square miles when geographic size is based on land area only. This district would be almost 310 by 310 miles structured as a square. The geographic size has been computed for approximately 14,000 school districts based on boundaries reported for the 2007-08 school year. The area measurements are in square meters and then converted to square miles.