Time Zone: America Anchorage (USA Alaska Time)

City of Anchorage website (external)

Visitor Information website (external)

University of Alaska Anchorage website (external)

Ted Stevens Anchorage International airport code: ANC / PANC

Anchorage is Alaska's largest city with 42 percent of the state'spopulation.

Anchorage, and virtually all of Alaska, is in Alaska Time Zone . Alaska Standard Time (AKST) is one hourbehind Pacific Standard Time and four hours behind Eastern Standard Time. The offset or time difference from Greenwich Mean Time is nine hours (GMT-9).

Anchorage stretches from Portage Glacier to Eklutna, encompassing 1,955 sq.miles (782 hectares) - about the size of the state of Delaware.

Anchorage sits at the base of the Chugach Mountains along the coast of CookInlet in South-central Alaska.

Alaska is actually the northern, western and easternmost pointin the United States. The Aleutian Chain extends into the Eastern Hemisphere.