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The nickname is The Pine Tree State.

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The name Maine is probably a practical nautical term which refers to the region being a mainland (separate from the many surrounding islands). Reference to the area as "Maine" in writing first appeared in 1622. All State Name Origins.Origin of Maine's Name: Maine State Library.

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1.388 million (2019)

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All Roads Music Festival 2019, Maine Lobster Festival, The Maine Fiber Frolic.

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Maine is in the northeastern U.S.

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Maine is coastal.

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Its industrial outputs are paper, lumber, and wood products, electronic equipment, leather products, food processing, textiles, and tourism. Naval shipbuilding remains important as well, with Bath Iron Works in Bath and Portsmouth Naval Yard in Kittery. Maine ports play a key role in national transportation.

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Warehouse Order Selector- Portland, Maine, Warehouse Order Selectors/Loaders (95575), Marine Patrol Officer.

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Maine potatoes are the state's largest crop. Other crops are corn, hay, oats and other grains to feed cattle. Greenhouse and nursery products, broccoli, dry beans, peas and other vegetables are also grown. Apples are Maine's most valuable fruit crop, but Maine is also a leading producer of wild blueberries.

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Maine is divided into three distinct areas; the Atlantic Ocean Coastal Lowlands, the Central Uplands, and mountain ranges of the Appalachian Mountains in the northwestern reaches of the state. The scattered Longfellow Mountains, the state's major range, are considered an extension of New Hampshire's White Mountains.

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The major bodies of water in Maine include rivers, lakes and ocean. Maine has a coastline of at least 230 miles bordering the Atlantic Ocean. The Gulf of Maine is the area of the Atlantic Ocean between Cape Cod, Mass., and Nova Scotia, Canada. Moosehead Lake in central Maine is the largest lake in the state.

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The highest mountain in Maine is Mount Katahdin which is 5,269 feet. The smallest mountain in Maine is Baker Mountain which is 3,520.

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The Desert of Maine is a 40-acre (160,000 m2) tract of exposed glacial silt (a sand-like substance, but finer-grained than sand) surrounded by a pine forest near the town of Freeport, Maine, in the United States.

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Maine has a humid continental climate (Koppen climate classification Dfb), with warm (although generally not hot), humid summers. Winters are cold and very snowy throughout the state, and are especially severe in the Northern and Western parts of Maine.

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Annual precipitation in Maine averages 40 inches in the Northern Division, about 42 inches in the South and 46 inches in the Coastal Division. Although Maine is rarely subjected to ice storms, hurricanes and tornadoes, 10 to 20 thunderstorms occur annually in the Coastal Division and 15 to 30 elsewhere.

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The average temperature in the winter is 34 degrees Fahrenheit to 42 degrees Fahrenheit. In the summer it will get as hot as 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

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March 15, 1820.

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The Plymouth Colony, established on the shores of Cape Cod Bay in 1620, set up a competing trading post at Penobscot Bay in the 1620's. The territory between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers was first called the Province of Maine in a 1622 land patent granted to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason.

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Stephen Edwin King is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television series, and comic books. King has published 58 novels and six non-fiction books.

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Maine is divided into three distinct areas; the Atlantic Ocean Coastal Lowlands, the Central Uplands, and mountain ranges of the Appalachian Mountains in the northwestern reaches of the state. The scattered Longfellow Mountains, the state's major range, are considered an extension of New Hampshire's White Mountains.

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White Pine Cone

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Dirigo
It means ("I direct" or "I lead").

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Augusta

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Black-capped chickadee

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The flag of the state of Maine features the state coat of arms on a blue field. In the center of the shield, a moose rests under a tall pine tree. A farmer and seaman represent the traditional reliance on agriculture and the sea by the state. The North Star represents the state motto: Dirigo ("I Lead").

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The history of the area comprising the U.S. state of Maine spans thousands of years, measured from the earliest human settlement, or less than two hundred, measured from the advent of U.S. statehood in 1820. ... The origin of the name Maine is unclear.

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The Aroostook War (sometimes called the Pork and Beans War) was a military and civilian-involved confrontation in 1838–1839 between the United States and the United Kingdom over the international boundary between the British colony of New Brunswick and the U.S. state of Maine.

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Most winters the first snow comes around the end of November. January, February and March are the snowy months. Weather varies in Maine, snow might be covered with a coating of ice or dry and soft. One March while living in southern Maine we had 81 inches of snow.

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Maine, New York, USA: Annual Weather Averages. July is the hottest month in Maine with an average temperature of 70°F (21°C) and the coldest is January at 22°F(-6°C).

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Maine: Physiographic Regions. The state can be divided into three geographic land areas: Coastal Lowlands. Eastern New England Uplands.

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It is bordered by New Hampshire to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and northwest respectively. Maine is the easternmost state in the contiguous United States, and the northernmost state east of the Great Lakes.

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Natural Resources: Maine's important natural resources are its vast forests and its fertile soils. Granite and limestone deposits are abundant but not fully mined. One of the largest copper and zinc deposits are found in Maine but they are hard to get at.

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Maine's economy has become increasingly dependent on services, while the traditional industry, the manufacture of paper and paper products, has declined. Fishing, forestry, mining, and agriculture comprise the second most important sector.

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Maine's distinctive coastal landforms include its glacially carved jagged rocky bays and inlets. The rockbound coastline is interspersed with stretches of sandy beaches at its southern edge. Many islands composed of weathered igneous and metamorphic rock lay just off the coast. Half of Maine's tidal coastline features cliffs eroded out of the glacial drift deposited by the ice sheets of the last period of glaciation. The rest of the coast has granite rock formations gently sloping down to the shore.