Portland, city, seat (1760) of Cumberland county, southwestern Maine, U.S. The state’s largest city, it is the hub of a metropolitan statistical area that includes the cities of South Portland and Westbrook and the towns of Falmouth, Cape Elizabeth, Cum
1786. The largest city in Maine, it (together with neighboring South Portland) is a port of entry, the commercial center of the state, and the rail, highway, shipping, and processing center for a vast farming, lumbering, and resort area. The Port of Portland is a major receiving port ...
Urban planners nationwide have praised the Portland metropolitan area as a model of how to keep urban sprawl in check. During the early 1970s, there was concern that Portland would go the way of other western metropolitan areas and turn into a Los Angeles-like sprawl of freeways and far-flun...
Portland is Maine's cultural, social and economic capital. It is also the principal city of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford metropolitan area, with a population of 513,102, which includes Cumberland, York, and Sagadahoc counties. Tourists are drawn to Portland's historic Old Port district...