How much did Russia sell Alaska for?

Can Canada take back Alaska?

No, that would have been impossible. The United States purchased Alaska from Russia during the same year in which Canada became a British Dominion, in 1867. Canada's borders didn't extend as far as Alaska until 1870.

How come Canada didn't get Alaska?

There are two main reasons. First, Canada wasn't its own country in 1867. Second, Great Britain controlled the Canadian colonies. Russia did not want to sell Alaska to its rival.

Would Canada be bigger than Russia if it had Alaska?

Russia is 17,098,242 km². Canada is 9,984,670 km². Alaska is 1.718 million km² and Greenland 2.16 million km². So if you added Canada, Alaska and Greenland together you'd still need a country almost as big as India (3.287 million km²) to make the land mass larger than Russia.

Why did Russia sell Alaska to the US instead of Canada?

Defeat in the Crimean War further reduced Russian interest in this region. Russia offered to sell Alaska to the United States in 1859, believing the United States would off-set the designs of Russia's greatest rival in the Pacific, Great Britain.