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City of Bangor

Bangor

Bangor is a small city of 32,000 people in the region of . Bangor is the third-largest city in the state and the retail, cultural and service center for central, eastern and northern Maine.
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  • Type: City with 31,800 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Penobscot County, Maine, United States
  • Also known as: “Bangor, Maine”, “Bangor, ME”, “Kenduskeag Plantation”, and “Sunbury”
  • Postal codes: 04401 and 04402

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bangor Public Library and Eastern Maine Medical Center.

Library
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The is the public library of Bangor, Maine. It shares the URSUS online cataloging system with the and other Maine libraries.

Hospital
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Northern Light is a located in Bangor, Maine that serves communities throughout central, eastern, and northern Maine.

Church
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St. John's Catholic Church is a historic church at 217 York Street in Bangor, Maine. Built in 1855 at the height of the anti-immigrant Know Nothing movement, it stands as a major symbol of the city's Irish-American heritage, and a high quality local example of Gothic Revival architecture.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Brewer.

Town
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is a city in , United States. It is part of the Bangor metropolitan area. The city is named after its first settler, Colonel John .

Bangor

Latitude
44.8016° or 44° 48′ 6″ north
Longitude
-68.7713° or 68° 46′ 17″ west
Population
31,800
Elevation
118 feet (36 metres)
IATA airport code
BGR
United Nations Location Code
US BGR
Open location code
87PHR62H+MF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158862401
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4957280
Wiki­data ID
Q327012
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Bangor” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بانجور”
  • Basque: “Bangor”
  • Belarusian: “Бангор”
  • Bengali: “ব্যাঙ্গর”
  • Breton: “Bangor”
  • Bulgarian: “Бангор”
  • Bulgarian: “Бангър”
  • Catalan: “Bangor”
  • Cebuano: “Bangor (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Maine)”
  • Cebuano: “Bangor”
  • Chechen: “Бангор”
  • Chinese: “Bangor”
  • Chinese: “班戈”
  • Cornish: “Bangor, Mayn”
  • Cornish: “Bangor”
  • Czech: “Bangor”
  • Dagbani: “Bangor”
  • Danish: “Bangor”
  • Dutch: “Bangor”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بانجور”
  • Esperanto: “Bangor (Majno)”
  • Esperanto: “Bangor”
  • Esperanto: “Bangoro”
  • Estonian: “Bangor”
  • Faroese: “Bangor”
  • Finnish: “Bangor, Maine”
  • Finnish: “Bangor”
  • French: “Bangor”
  • German: “Bangor”
  • Gilaki: “بنگور (مین)”
  • Gilaki: “بنگور”
  • Greek: “Μπανγκόρ”
  • Greek: “Μπάνγκορ”
  • Gujarati: “બેંગોર”
  • Hebrew: “בנגור”
  • Hindi: “बंगोर”
  • Hungarian: “Bangor”
  • Indonesian: “Bangor, Maine”
  • Indonesian: “Bangor”
  • Interlingua: “Bangor”
  • Irish: “Bangor, Maine”
  • Irish: “Bangor”
  • Italian: “Bangor”
  • Japanese: “バンガー”
  • Japanese: “バンゴー”
  • Japanese: “バンゴール”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ಯಾಂಗರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Бангор”
  • Kirghiz: “Бангор”
  • Korean: “뱅고어”
  • Ladin: “Bangor”
  • Latvian: “Bangora”
  • Latvian: “Bengora”
  • Lithuanian: “Bengoras”
  • Malagasy: “Bangor, Maine”
  • Malagasy: “Bangor”
  • Malay: “Bangor”
  • Marathi: “बांगोर”
  • Mazanderani: “بنگر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bangor”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bangor”
  • Norwegian: “Bangor”
  • Ossetian: “Бангор”
  • Persian: “بنگر، مین”
  • Persian: “بنگر”
  • Polish: “Bangor”
  • Portuguese: “Bangor”
  • Romanian: “Bangor”
  • Russian: “Бангор”
  • Scots: “Bangor”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bangor, Maine”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bangor”
  • Serbian: “Бангор”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bangor, Maine”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bangor”
  • Sinhala: “බැන්ගොර්”
  • Slovenian: “Bangor”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بانقور، مئین”
  • Spanish: “Bangor (Maine)”
  • Spanish: “Bangor”
  • Swahili: “Bangor, Maine”
  • Swahili: “Bangor”
  • Swedish: “Bangor, Maine”
  • Swedish: “Bangor”
  • Tamil: “பாங்கர்”
  • Tatar: “Бангор”
  • Telugu: “బంగోర్”
  • Thai: “บันกอร์”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Bangor, Maine”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Bangor”
  • Turkish: “Bangor, Maine”
  • Turkish: “Bangor”
  • Ukrainian: “Бангор”
  • Ukrainian: “Банґор”
  • Urdu: “بانگور، میئن”
  • Uzbek: “Bangor”
  • Vietnamese: “Bangor”
  • Volapük: “Bangor”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bangor, Maine”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bangor”
  • Welsh: “Bangor, Maine”
  • Welsh: “Bangor”
  • Yiddish: “באנגאר, מעין”
  • Yiddish: “באנגאר”

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