Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet on Friday at the remote Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, a US military installation in Anchorage, Alaska.

Elmendorf-Richardson combines the Air Force's Elmendorf base and the US Army's Fort Richardson.

It is Alaska's largest military base and is home to more than 32,000 people - about 10% of Anchorage's population.

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Image: US paratroopers during a training session at the base

The area is also significant for Russia: the US purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire 158 years ago.

In fact, Alaska's Little Diomede Island is less than three miles from Russia's Big Diomede Island in the Bering Strait, showing how geographically close the two countries are.

During the Cold War, the base w

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