With 260,000 residents according to the 2000 census, Anchorage is the largest city in the state of Alaska, comprising more than two-fifths of the state’s population. A State of Alaska Demographer in 2004 estimates the population at 280,000. Anchorage was founded in 1915 and named after a place where a ship lies at anchor. Its unofficial nickname is “The City of Lights and Flowers”, referring to its thousands of buildings outlined and adorned by tiny white lights throughout winter and its spectacular displays of flowers in the summer. Garden writers call Anchorage the “Hanging Basket Capital of the World” when it comes to the city’s thousands of hanging baskets, and aviation buffs refer to the city by its former official slogan, the “Air Crossroads of the World”, because of its geographical location between the two northern continents and its strategic location in the realm of worldwide shipping and transportation.
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