What's some information on the states Hawaii, Texas, Alaska, Maryland, and New York?

I am originally from North Potomac, Maryland :)

This was a great site I found with facts about Maryland. Baltimore is it's largest city. The state bird is the oriole. The state flower is the Black Eyed Susan. The state beverage (weird!) is milk! It is also known as the Free State or Old Line State.

The state of Maryland is 9,774 square miles. It has 23 counties and one independent city. Montgomery County (where I am from) is the largest county with 927,583 people. There are 7 state forests and 40 state parks.

Alaska's capital is Juneau. Juneau is the only state capital acessbile by boat or plane. You can't drive to Juneau. Largest city is Anchorage. Some areas of the state get 24 hours of daylight, 24 hours of darkness, and the state has 3 million lakes. Alaska is twice the size of Texas, has 29 volcanoes, and contains over 1/2 the world's glaciers. Record high is 100 degrees F. Record low is -78 degrees F. Mount McKinley is the tallest mountain, at 20,320 feet. The most common wildlife are moose, grizzly bears, kodiak bears, polar bears, caribou, musk ox. Alaska was purchased from Russia in 1867 for under 2 cents an acre. The name Alaska means The Great Land. The state sport is dog mushing. "Cheechako" is the what Alaskans call someone new to their state.

Check out this website for more great fun Alaskan facts:

http://www.blondebear.com/FunAlaskaFacts.html

I want to visit Alaska very much. It's my dream vacation.