Do U Know Juneau?

Juneau is a unique capital city.

The city of 30,000 is located is located 900 air miles north of Seattle and 600 air miles southeast of Anchorage. That makes it (by far!) the capital located the furthest from the most populous city.















Juneau is:

• Larger in area than the state of Delaware in area

• The U.S. state capital whose namesake was most recently alive: Joe Juneau died in 1899, a year after Otto von Bismarck (North Dakota).

• The only state capital with no roads connecting it to the rest of the state

• The only U.S. state capital to border another country - it shares its eastern border with the Canadian province of British Columbia.. (Carson City, Nevada and Trenton, New Jersey are the only state capitals which border another state.)