Home to 13 million people, more than 7,000 miles of coastline, and the country's 10 highest mountains -- not to mention the Japanese-held territory closest to the continental United States during WWII*, the only state named after a president**, and the facility where nuclear power was first used to generate electricity***.

*Attu and Kiska, in Alaskas's Aleutian Islands
**Washington
***in Idaho Falls, Idaho, in 1951

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