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Bangor

City, port, and administrative headquarters of Penobscot County in eastern central Maine, 97 km/60 mi northeast of Augusta, on the Penobscot River; population (2000) 31,500. Products include footwear, paper, and sports and logging equipment.

Starting out in the 1770s as Kenduskeag Plantation, after 1830 Bangor became a leading lumber port (shipping world-famous Maine pine) and shipbuilding centre. Bangor Theological Seminary, Beal College, Husson College, and Eastern Maine Vocational and Technical Institute are here. Bangor International Airport lies west of the city centre.

Bangor

City in southwest Michigan, 43 km/27 mi west of Kalamazoo, on the South Branch of the Black River; population (1990 est) 1,900. It was settled around 1837. Products include valves and spray guns, and there are fruit-packing facilities.

It is also the site of a historic toy-train factory, housed in the restored Chesapeake and Ohio depot.



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