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Maine (/ m eɪ n / ⓘ MAYN) [10] is a state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeastern most state in the Lower 48.It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and northwest, and shares a maritime border with Nova Scotia.
History of Maine. The origin of the name Maine is unclear. One theory is that it was named after the French province of Maine. Another is that it derives from a practical nautical term, "the main" or "Main Land", "Meyne" or "Mainland", which served to distinguish the bulk of the state from its numerous islands. [1]
The Province of Maine refers to any of the various English colonies established in the 17th century along the northeast coast of North America, within portions of the present-day U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick. It existed through a series of land patents made by the kings ...
Music of Maine. The state of Maine is located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. Its musical traditions extend back thousands of years to the music of the first peoples of Maine, the Penobscot [1] Passamaquoddy, [2] Wabanaki [3] and other related Indigenous [4] cultures.
Maine (pronounced [mɛːn] ⓘ) is one of the traditional provinces of France. It corresponds to the former County of Maine, whose capital was also the city of Le Mans. The area, now divided into the departments of Sarthe and Mayenne, has about 857,000 inhabitants.
The "State of Maine" is the anthem of the U.S. state of Maine, [1] adopted as the state song in 1937. It was written and composed by Roger Vinton Snow , [ 2 ] who died in 1953. Lyrics
Maine. The District of Maine was the governmental designation for what is now the U.S. state of Maine from October 25, 1780 to March 15, 1820, when it was admitted to the Union as the 23rd state. The district was a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and before American independence had been part of the British province of Massachusetts Bay.
Ogunquit (/ oʊ ˈ ɡ ʌ ŋ k w ɪ t / oh-GUN-kwit) is a resort town in York County, Maine, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,577. [2] Ogunquit is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area.