Cumberland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maine. As of 2000, the population was 265,612. Its county seat is Portland, and is the most populous of the sixteen Maine counties, as well as the most affluent. Cumberland County has the deepest and second largest body of water in the state, Sebago Lake, which supplies tap water to most of the county. The county is the economic and industrial center of the state having the resources of t...
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Cumberland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maine. As of 2000, the population was 265,612. Its county seat is Portland, and is the most populous of the sixteen Maine counties, as well as the most affluent. Cumberland County has the deepest and second largest body of water in the state, Sebago Lake, which supplies tap water to most of the county. The county is the economic and industrial center of the state having the resources of the Port of Portland, the Maine Mall and having corporate headquarters of major companies such as Fairchild Semiconductor, IDEXX Laboratories, UnumProvident and TD Banknorth.
Cumberland County is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,217 square miles (3,152 km²), of which, 836 square miles (2,164 km²) of it is land and 381 square miles (988 km²) of it (31.34%) is water.
As of the census of 2000 , there were 265,612 people, 107...
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