Portland-South Portland, ME
The city of Portland, Maine, is the hub city of a metropolitan area in southern Maine. The region is commonly known as Greater Portland or the Portland metropolitan area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Economic region with 510,000 residents
- Description: metropolitan area in southern Maine, United States
- Also known as: “38860”, “Portland - South Portland metropolitan area”, “Portland – South Portland metropolitan area”, “Portland metropolitan area”, “Portland metropolitan area, Maine”, “Portland-South Portland metropolitan statistical area”, “Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, ME metro area”, “Portland-South Portland, ME Metro Area”, “Portland-South Portland, ME Metropolitan Statistical Area”, “Portland–South Portland metropolitan area”, and “Portland, Maine metropolitan area”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gorham Campus Historic District and Art Gallery.
Gorham Campus Historic District
Historic site
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The Gorham Campus Historic District encompasses seven buildings that make up the historic heart of the campus of the University of Southern Maine in Gorham, Maine.
Art Gallery
Art gallery
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The Art Gallery of the University of Southern Maine, Gorham campus, is located at 5 University Way, at the main campus entrance. The building in which it is located was built in 1822 as a non-denominational church building, and has also served as Gorham's town hall.
Walker Memorial Library
Library
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The Walker Memorial Library is the public library of Westbrook, Maine, United States. It is located at 800 Main Street, in an architecturally distinguished French Chateauesque building designed by Frederick A. Walker Memorial Library is situated 3 miles northeast of Portland-South Portland, ME.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westbrook and Gorham.
Westbrook
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Westbrook is a city in Cumberland County, Maine, United States and a suburb of Portland. The population was 20,400 at the 2020 census, making it the fastest-growing city in Maine between 2010 and 2020.
Gorham
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Located about 25 minutes outside of Portland, Gorham is a town of about 16,000 inhabitants on an area of about 50.3 square miles. Though it seems like quite a large town, the center of Gorham is in fact very quaint.
Scarborough
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Scarborough is a town in Cumberland County on the southern coast of the U.S. state of Maine. Located about 7 miles south of Portland, Scarborough is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area.
Portland-South Portland, ME
- Category: metropolitan statistical area
- Location: Maine, New England, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Portland-South Portland, ME” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “波特蘭都會區”
- German: “Metropolregion Portland–South Portland”
- Slovenian: “metropolitansko območje Portlanda”
- Spanish: “Area metropolitana de Portland-South Portland-Biddeford”
- Spanish: “Área metropolitana de Portland-South Portland-Biddeford”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as South Gorham and North Scarborough.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include South Branch Stroudwater River and South Gorham Cemetery.
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