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Also known as: Pine Tree State
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Eldred D. Rolfe
Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of Maine-Farmington. Author, A Geography of Maine.
Eldred D. Rolfe,
John N. Cole
Cofounder and Editor, Maine Times, Topsham, 1968–82. Author of In Maine and others.
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Maine, constituent state of the United States of America. The largest of the six New England states in area, it lies at the northeastern corner of the country. Its total area, including about 2,300 square miles (6,000 square km) of inland water, represents nearly half of the total area of New England. Maine is bounded to the northwest and northeast by the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick, respectively, and to the west by New Hampshire. The famed rocky coastline of the state is angled from southwest to northeast along the Atlantic Ocean. Maine was admitted to the union ...(100 of 4761 words)

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