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Cumberland County
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county in Maine, United States
Cumberland County is a county located in Maine in the northeastern United States. It matters as an important administrative region that includes several significant towns and serves as home to a substantial portion of Maine's population.
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Maine
- Founded
- November 1, 1760
- Named after
- Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
- Seat
- Portland
- Largest city
- Portland
- Total
- 1,217 sq mi (3,150 km )
- Land
- 835 sq mi (2,160 km )
- Water
- 383 sq mi (990 km ) 31%
- Estimate 2025
- 317,222
- Density
- 363/sq mi (140/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- cumberlandcountyme .gov
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Encyclopedic overview
Cumberland County is a county in the U.S. state of Maine. As of the 2020 census, the population was 303,069, making it the most populous county in Maine. Its county seat is Portland. Cumberland County was founded in 1760 from a portion of York County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, and named for William, Duke of Cumberland, a son of King George II. Cumberland County has the deepest and second-largest body of water in the state, Sebago Lake, which supplies tap water to most of the county. The county is the state's economic and industrial center, having the resources of the Port of Portland, the Maine Mall, and having corporate headquarters of major companies such as onsemi, IDEXX Laboratories, Unum, and TD Bank. Cumberland County is part of the Portland–South Portland, ME Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Geography, topography and ecology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cumberland County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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