Augusta
Augusta is the capital of Maine, but at 19,000, it is one of the least populous state capitals in the United States.Photo: Quintinsoloviev, CC BY 4.0.
Photo: AlexiusHoratius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 18,700 residents
- Description: county seat in Kennebec County, Maine, USA and Maine federated state capital city
- Also known as: “Augusta, Maine”, “Augusta, ME”, “Cushnoc”, “Cusinock”, “Harrington”, “Herringtown”, “Koussinock”, and “The Fort”
- Postal codes: 04330, 04332, 04333, 04336, and 04338
- Neighbors: Hallowell
Places of Interest
Highlights include Maine State House and Augusta State Airport.
Maine State House
Government office
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Maine State House in Augusta, Maine, is the state capitol of the State of Maine. The building was completed in 1832, one year after Augusta became the capital of Maine.
Augusta State Airport
Aerodrome
Augusta State Airport is a public use airport located one nautical mile west of the central business district of the state capital of Augusta, a city in Kennebec County, Maine, United States.
Fort Western
Museum
Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort Western is a former British colonial outpost at the head of navigation on the Kennebec River at modern Augusta, Maine, United States. It was built in 1754 during the French and Indian War, and is now a National Historic Landmark and local historic site owned by the city.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hallowell.
Hallowell
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Hallowell is a city in Kennebec County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,570 at the 2020 census. Popular with tourists, Hallowell is noted for its culture and old architecture.
Augusta
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Kennebec, Kennebec and Moose River Valleys, Maine, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.3148° or 44° 18′ 53″ northLongitude
-69.7744° or 69° 46′ 28″ westPopulation
18,700Elevation
125 feet (38 metres)IATA airport code
AUGUnited Nations Location Code
US AUGOpen location code
87PG867G+W6OpenStreetMap ID
node 158860186OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
4957003Wikidata ID
Q28206
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Augusta” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Augusta, Maine”
- Afrikaans: “Augusta”
- Albanian: “Augusta”
- Arabic: “Augusta”
- Arabic: “أغستا، مين”
- Arabic: “أگستا، مين”
- Arabic: “أوجوستا”
- Arabic: “أوغوستا”
- Aragonese: “Augusta”
- Armenian: “Օգաստա”
- Asturian: “Augusta (Maine)”
- Asturian: “Augusta”
- Basque: “Augusta”
- Bavarian: “Augusta”
- Belarusian: “Агаста”
- Bengali: “অগাস্টা, মেইন”
- Bengali: “অগাস্টা”
- Bhojpuri: “अगस्टा”
- Bislama: “Augusta, Maine”
- Bislama: “Augusta”
- Bosnian: “Augusta”
- Breton: “Augusta”
- Bulgarian: “Огъста”
- Catalan: “Augusta”
- Cebuano: “Augusta”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەگاستا، مەین”
- Chechen: “Огаста”
- Chinese: “Augusta”
- Chinese: “奥古斯塔”
- Chinese: “柯格斯塔”
- Cornish: “Augusta, Mayn”
- Cornish: “Augusta”
- Czech: “Augusta”
- Danish: “Augusta”
- Dimli (individual language): “Augusta, Maine”
- Dimli (individual language): “Augusta”
- Dutch: “Augusta”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوجاستا”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوجوستا”
- Esperanto: “Augusta”
- Estonian: “Augusta”
- Extremaduran: “Augusta”
- Faroese: “Augusta”
- Finnish: “Augusta”
- French: “Augusta”
- Galician: “Augusta, Maine”
- Galician: “Augusta”
- Georgian: “ოგასტა”
- German: “Augusta”
- Gilaki: “آگوستا”
- Gothic: “𐌰𐌿𐌲𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰, 𐌼𐌴𐌽”
- Gothic: “𐌰𐌿𐌲𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰”
- Greek: “Αουγκούστα”
- Greek: “Αυγούστα”
- Greek: “Ογκάστα”
- Gujarati: “ઓગસ્ટા”
- Hawaiian: “Aukuka”
- Hebrew: “אוגוסטה”
- Hindi: “अगस्ता”
- Hungarian: “Augusta”
- Icelandic: “Augusta”
- Ido: “Augusta, Maine”
- Ido: “Augusta”
- Iloko: “Augusta, Maine”
- Iloko: “Augusta”
- Indonesian: “Augusta, Maine”
- Indonesian: “Augusta”
- Interlingua: “Augusta”
- Interlingue: “Augusta”
- Irish: “Augusta, Maine”
- Irish: “Augusta”
- Italian: “Augusta”
- Japanese: “オーガスタ”
- Kannada: “ಆಗಸ್ಟಾ”
- Kazakh: “Аугуста”
- Kirghiz: “Аугуста”
- Kirghiz: “Огаста”
- Korean: “오거스타”
- Kurdish: “Augusta, Maine”
- Kurdish: “Augusta”
- Ladin: “Augusta”
- Latin: “Augusta”
- Latvian: “Augusta”
- Latvian: “Ogasta”
- Ligurian: “Augusta”
- Lithuanian: “Ogasta”
- Lombard: “Augusta, Maine”
- Lombard: “Augusta”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Augusta”
- Macedonian: “Огаста”
- Malagasy: “Augusta, Maine”
- Malagasy: “Augusta”
- Malay: “Augusta, Maine”
- Malay: “Augusta”
- Malayalam: “അഗസ്റ്റ, മെയിൻ”
- Marathi: “ऑगस्टा”
- Mazanderani: “آگوستا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Augusta”
- Moroccan Arabic: “أوڭوسطا”
- Newari: “अगस्ता, मेइन”
- Newari: “अगस्ता”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Augusta”
- Norwegian: “Augusta”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Augusta”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Augushām, Maine”
- Ossetian: “Огастæ”
- Pali: “अगस्टा”
- Pampanga: “Augusta, Maine”
- Pampanga: “Augusta”
- Persian: “آگوستا، مین”
- Persian: “آگوستا”
- Persian: “اگوستا”
- Piemontese: “Augusta”
- Polish: “Augusta”
- Portuguese: “Augusta, Maine”
- Portuguese: “Augusta”
- Quechua: “Augusta”
- Romanian: “Augusta, Maine”
- Romanian: “Augusta”
- Russian: “Огаста”
- Samogitian: “Ogasta”
- Sanskrit: “अगस्टा”
- Sardinian: “Augusta”
- Scots: “Augusta”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Augusta, Maine”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Augusta”
- Serbian: “Огаста”
- Serbian: “Огуста”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Augusta, Maine”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Augusta”
- Sinhala: “ඕගස්ටා”
- Slovak: “Augusta”
- Slovenian: “Augusta”
- South Azerbaijani: “آوقوستا، مئین”
- Spanish: “Augusta (Maine)”
- Spanish: “Augusta”
- Swahili: “Augusta, Maine”
- Swahili: “Augusta”
- Swedish: “Augusta, Maine”
- Swedish: “Augusta”
- Tagalog: “Augusta, Maine”
- Tagalog: “Augusta”
- Talysh: “Ogasta”
- Tamil: “அகஸ்தா”
- Tatar: “Огаста (Мэн)”
- Tatar: “Огаста”
- Telugu: “అగస్టా”
- Thai: “ออกัสตา”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Augusta, Maine”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Augusta”
- Tumbuka: “Augusta, Maine”
- Tumbuka: “Augusta”
- Turkish: “Augusta, Maine”
- Turkish: “Augusta”
- Ukrainian: “Огаста”
- Urdu: “آگسٹا، میئن”
- Urdu: “آگسٹا”
- Uzbek: “Augusta”
- Uzbek: “Ogasta”
- Vietnamese: “Augusta, Maine”
- Vietnamese: “Augusta”
- Volapük: “Augusta”
- Waray (Philippines): “Augusta, Maine”
- Waray (Philippines): “Augusta”
- Welsh: “Augusta, Maine”
- Welsh: “Augusta”
- Western Frisian: “Augusta”
- Western Mari: “Огаста”
- Wu Chinese: “奥古斯塔 (缅因州)”
- Wu Chinese: “奥古斯塔(缅因州)”
- Yue Chinese: “柯格斯塔”
- Yue Chinese: “阿加斯他”
- “Augusta”
- “Ogasta”
- “अगस्टा, मेइन”
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