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Maine Counties

Counties

County Basics

The tables below feature information about every in . (Note: Louisiana is divided into parishes, Alaska into boroughs.) The first table lists each ’s name, the seat, area in square miles, area in square kilometers (km), population density (number of people per square mile), density per square kilometer (km) and population. County (or parish, borough) seats that also serve as state capitals are highlighted in yellow. The second table focuses on race.

You can see this information for all fifty states at Reference > North America > USA > Counties. Also, see the Counties home page.
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Name Seat Area (km) Density (km) Pop(2000) Pop(1990)
Androscoggin Auburn 470 1,218 224 86 103,793 105,259
Aroostook Houlton 6,672 17,280 13 5 73,938 86,936
Cumberland Portland 836 2,164 291 112 265,612 243,135
Franklin Farmington 1,698 4,398 17 7 29,467 29,008
Hancock Ellsworth 1,589 4,116 30 11 51,791 46,948
Kennebec 8/1/2006 868 2,247 134 52 117,114 115,904
Knox Rockland 366 947 99 38 39,618 36,310
Lincoln Wiscasset 456 1,180 67 26 33,616 30,357
Oxford South Paris 2,078 5,383 25 10 54,755 52,602
Penobscot Bangor 3,396 8,796 43 17 144,919 146,601
Piscataquis Dover-Foxcroft 3,967 10,273 5 2 17,235 18,653
Sagadahoc Bath 254 658 132 51 35,214 33,535
Somerset Skowhegan 3,927 10,171 13 5 50,888 49,767
Waldo Belfast 730 1,890 45 18 36,280 33,018
Washington Machias 2,569 6,653 14 5 33,941 35,308
York Alfred 991 2,567 166 64 186,742 164,587
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau)

Race

The table below lists the population of various ethnic and cultural groups in : Native American (American Indian, Eskimo and Aleut), white (Caucasian), black (African American), Asian American, Pacific Islander, “Some Other Race,” people whose ancestry includes two or more races, and Hispanic.
County Native White Black Asian PI Other Race2 Hisp
Androscoggin 282 100,658 683 572 40 294 1,264 988
Aroostook 1,005 71,572 281 351 19 122 588 441
Cumberland 763 254,291 2,815 3,707 99 923 3,014 2,526
Franklin 109 28,865 72 126 6 49 240 159
Hancock 193 50,554 130 196 18 105 595 336
Kennebec 469 114,129 404 690 24 206 1,192 852
Knox 87 38,935 94 141 4 49 308 225
Lincoln 88 33,099 57 124 8 34 206 155
Oxford 151 53,797 95 201 12 59 440 292
Penobscot 1,444 139,989 708 1,019 47 328 1,384 882
Piscataquis 89 16,862 36 47 4 24 173 89
Sagadahoc 110 33,977 323 222 22 133 427 391
Somerset 208 49,868 121 171 11 55 454 234
Waldo 144 35,513 68 76 5 57 417 215
Washington 1,505 31,728 88 101 4 151 364 274
York 451 182,177 785 1,367 59 322 1,581 1,301
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau)


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