Key facts
- Country
- France
- Time zone
- CET
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- historical province of France
- Named after
- Cenomani
- Country
- France
- Capital
- Le Mans
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- Commons category
- Maine (province)
- topic's main category
- Category:Maine (province)
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1790-00-00
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- different from
- Province of Maine
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Encyclopedic overview
Maine ( French: [mɛːn] ) is one of the traditional provinces of France. It corresponds to the former County of Maine, whose capital was also the city of Le Mans. The area, now divided into the departments of Sarthe and Mayenne, has about 857,000 inhabitants.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maine” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.