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Maine is a state in New England in the United States. It is bounded by Canada .To the southwest lies New Hampshire, Maine entered the Union on March 15, 1820, when it was separated from Massachusetts . Augusta is Maine’s capital. Portland is the largest city. Also maines nickname is “The Pine Tree State.” also Maine’s motto is Dario which means [ I lead] . The state song is called “State of Maine Song.”
Maine is the 39 largest state, with an area of 33,741 sq mi. The area includes 2,263 sq mi of inland water and 613 sq mi of coast water . It is the largest state in New England and is almost as big as of all the other New England states combined. The state’s greatest distance is 202 mi; the greastest north-south distance is 311 mi. The mean elevation is about 600 ft.

The population of Maine is 1,274,923, . The population grew during the 1990s.Only 40 percent of Maine’s people live in urban areas, making Maine the third most rural state in the nation, . The average population density is 43.1 per sq mi. , the density is about person per 1 per sq mi. More than one-half the population lives in the south west corner of the state.
Whites are the majority of Maine’s residents, 96.9 percent of the people are white . Another 0.7 percent are Asians, 0.6 percent are Native Americans, 0.5 percent are blacks, and 1.2 percent are of mixed heritage . Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders are about 382. Hispanics, . Maine has one of the oldest state constitutions still in effect in the United States. It became established in 1819, when Maine joined the Union. . Maine sends two members to the U.S. House of Representatives and two members to the U.S. Senate, giving the state a total of four electoral votes.

Fishing, lumbering, farming, trapping, and shipbuilding were the leading economic activities of Maine from the 18th to the late 19th century, manufacturing still remained the biggest contributor to the state’s gross domestic product.

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