Maine,
largest of the New England states of the NE United States.
Maine is bordered by New Hampshire (W), the Canadian provinces
of Quebec (NW) and New Brunswick (NE), the Atlantic Ocean (the Gulf of Maine;
SE) and the Bay of Fundy (E).
It is probably named after the French province of Maine. Another
possibility for the name "Maine" is that the people living on islands along the
coast of Maine used to speak of going to the mainland as "going over to the
Main."
The major rivers are the St. John (which, with the St. Croix,
forms part of the international boundary with New Brunswick), the Penobscot, the
Kennebec, the Androscoggin, and the Saco.
Augusta is the Maine
state capital; Portland, Lewiston, and
Bangor are the largest cities.
Maine is in the Eastern Time Zone in the United
States of America (USA). Eastern Standard Time (EST) is 5 hours behind Greenwich
Mean Time (GMT-5).
Does
Maine observe Daylight Saving Time?
Like most states in the USA, Daylight-Saving
Time (DST) is observed in
Maine , where the
time is shifted forward by 1 hour to EDT; which is 4 hours behind
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT-4).
After the Summer months the time in
Maine is shifted
back by 1 hour to US Eastern Standard Time (EST) or (GMT-5).
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Maine
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Maine,
largest of the New England states of the NE United States.