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Demographics

Statehood: March 15, 1820, the 38th state

Capital: Augusta

Total Area: 39th among states, 87,389 sq km (33,741 sq mi)

Water Area: 7,449 sq km (2,876 sq mi)

Highest Point: Mount Katahdin, 1,605 m (5,267 ft)

Total Population:   40th among states
2000 census -  1,274,923
2005 estimate -  1,321,505

Population Density in 2000: 15 people per sq km (37 per sq mi)

Distribution in 1990: 45% Urban, 55% Rural

Economy:
Gross State Product - $41 billion (2003)
Personal income per Capita - $29,164 (2003)

Largest cities in 2000:
Portland: 64,250
Lewiston: 35,690
Bangor: 31,473

More wooden toothpicks are produced in Maine that in any other state.
Eastport is the most eastern city in the United States, receiving the first rays of the morning.
Freeport is home to the L.L. Bean Company.
Maine is the only state in the United States whose name has one syllable.
Almost 40 million pounds, 90%, of the nation’s lobster supply is caught off the coast of Maine. Maine also produces 99% of all the blueberries in the country.
The first sawmill in the nation was established near York in 1623.
In Wilton there is a cannery that imports and cans only dandelion greens.
Founded in 1866, Togus became the first Veteran’s Hospital in the U.S.
York became the nation’s first incorporated city in 1642.
More than nine-tenths of Maine's total land area is forested, the highest percentage of forest coverage of any state.
One of Maine's most important industries, cotton and woolen textiles, emerged in the 1840s in towns along the Androscoggin and Kennebec rivers.
American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow spent much of his childhood in Portland.
Maine's coastal waters attract a steadily increasing number of saltwater sports fishing enthusiasts.

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