MEMaine
Nobody has planted a flag here. It has been available since the map opened.
Claim it for
$5
The place
Joined 1820 · 23rd state · Eastern time
Maine is ninety per cent forest and mostly empty, a state with a long working coast and an interior that is closer to Canada in every sense. Lobster is an industry and an identity. It became a state as part of the Missouri Compromise, admitted free to balance a slave state, which is a strange origin for somewhere so far from that argument. Go for Acadia at sunrise, the first place in the country the sun touches, and then keep driving north where almost nobody does.
Ninety per cent forest, the most heavily wooded state in the country.
Eat
Lobster roll, cold, with mayo
Drink
Allagash Brewing
Listen
Ray LaMontagne
Bird
Black-capped chickadee
Flower
White pine cone and tassel
Tree
Eastern white pine
Grows
Wild blueberries, Potatoes, Maple syrup
National parks
- Acadia
The actual state · 2025
- Population
- 1,414,874
- Land area
- 30,845 mi²
- GDP per head
- $72,688
- Median household
- $76,372
- Joined
- Joined 1820
- Civil War
- Union
Largest cities
- 1Portland70K
- 2Lewiston39K
- 3Bangor32K
- 4South Portland27K
- 5Auburn25K
Race
- White91.4%
- Two or more3.4%
- Black2.9%
Hispanic or Latino2.8%
Counted across all races, so it overlaps the figures above.
No history yet
This one is still on the board. $5 and it is yours, and then it is somebody else's problem to take it back.