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Maine Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. 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 ...
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state State may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''State Magazine'', a monthly magazine published by the U.S. Department of State * ''The State'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, United States * ''Our S ...
located in Northeastern United States. According to the
2010 United States Census The United States census of 2010 was the twenty-third United States national census. National Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2010. The census was taken via mail-in citizen self-reporting, with enumerators servi ...
, Maine is the 9th least populous state, with 1,372,247 inhabitants, and the 12th smallest by land area spanning of land. Maine is divided into 16
counties A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...
and contains 483 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, and plantations. As of 2022, Maine has 23 incorporated cities, 430 towns, and 30 plantations, listed in the below tables. __TOC__


List of cities

File:Financial district2.JPG, Portland File:Lew2maine.jpg, Lewiston File:BangorME Downtown.jpg, Bangor File:Augusta, Maine 2.jpg, Augusta File:Belfast, Maine.jpg, Belfast The list, for each city, shows the population in 2010, the population estimate of 2019, the growth/shrinking percentage between the three, and the date of incorporation as a city.


List of towns

File:Downtown Brunswick, ME IMG 1967.JPG, Brunswick File:Downtown Farmington 5.JPG, Farmington File:46 Rumford, Maine.jpg, Rumford File:Boothbay Harbor in Summer.jpg, Boothbay Harbor File:Main Street, Machias, Maine.JPG, Machias This is a list of incorporated towns in Maine presented in a table sortable by name, county, or population.


List of plantations

File:DallasME UpperDallasSchool.jpg, Dallas Plantation File:RangeleyPlantationME TownHall.jpg, Rangeley Plantation File:View from Monhegan Island 3.jpg, Monhegan File:BENNETT BRIDGE.jpg, Lincoln Plantation In Maine, a
plantation A plantation is an agricultural estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops, usually mainly planted with a single crop, with perhaps ancillary areas for vegetables for eating and so on. The ...
is an organized form of municipal self-government similar to but with less power than a town or a city. One difference is that plantations cannot make local ordinances. Unlike towns or cities, with few exceptions, this type of municipality usually includes the word Plantation as part of its full name, which is also commonly used locally. There are some exceptions such as Monhegan Island Plantation, which is most commonly known as Monhegan.


See also

* List of places in Maine **
List of counties in Maine This is a list of the 16 counties in the U.S. state of Maine. Before statehood, Maine was officially part of the state of Massachusetts and was called the District of Maine. Maine was granted statehood on March 15, 1820, as part of the Missou ...
** List of unorganized territories in Maine * Minor civil division *
Township A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...
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List of cities in the United States The following articles contain lists of cities in the United States of America: * Lists of populated places in the United States - Lists of U.S. cities by state * List of United States cities by population * List of United States cities by area * ...
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New England town The town is the basic unit of local government and local division of state authority in the six New England states. Most other U.S. states lack a direct counterpart to the New England town. New England towns overlay the entire area of a state, s ...
* List of New England towns


References


External links


Maine Local Government county, city and town search
{{Lists of cities by U.S. state *
Maine Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. 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 ...
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Maine Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. 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 ...
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