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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 Missouri Compromise. Nine of the 16 counties had their borders defined while Maine was still part of ...
Maine has 16 counties. Subcategories. This category has the following 29 subcategories, out of 29 total. ...
According to the 2020 United States census, Maine is the 9th least populous state, with 1,372,247 inhabitants, and the 12th smallest by land area, spanning 30,842.92 square miles (79,882.8 km 2). [1] Maine is divided into 16 counties and contains 482 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, and plantations. [2]
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated one combined statistical area, three metropolitan statistical areas, and one micropolitan statistical area in Maine. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the Portland-Lewiston-South Portland, ME CSA , comprising the region around Maine's largest city of Portland .
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Mar. 11—Most Maine counties are now considered low-risk for COVID-19 transmission and hospital burden, according to updated federal data. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Dec. 16—COVID-19 is spreading faster in three rural Maine counties than nearly anywhere else in the United States. Franklin County in western Maine has the fourth highest per-capita rate of new ...
Known in Maine as "The County", [7] [8] it is the largest county in Maine by total area, the second-largest in the United States east of the Mississippi River by total area [9] [10] [7] (behind St. Louis County, Minnesota), and the 31st-largest county in the entire contiguous U.S.