Maine
a state in the northeastern U.S., one of the six New England states, on the Atlantic coast, on the U.S.-Canada border; pop. 1,274,923; capital, Augusta; statehood, Mar. 15, 1820 (23). Visited by John Cabot in 1498 and colonized by England in the 1600s and 1700s, it was annexed to Massachusetts from 1652 until 1820.
