Bangor, a city and port in the state of Maine, 246 miles NE. of Boston by rail, on the Penobscot, about 60 miles from its mouth, and at its confluence with the Kenduskeag, which affords extensive water-power. At spring-tides, which here rise 17 feet, the harbour is accessible from the sea for the largest vessels, and as the navigation cannot go higher, Bangor is one of the largest lumber depôts in the world, absorbing and monopolising the trade of the heavily timbered basins of the
Penobscot and its tributaries. About 200,000,000 feet of lumber are annually shipped from Bangor during the season of eight months. Bangor possesses a custom-house of granite, several churches, a theological seminary, foundries, planing and sawing mills, furniture factories, &c. Bangor has also some shipbuilding, and foreign and coasting trade. Under English rule the place was known as Kenduskeag; its present name was taken from the well-known psalm-tune, a favourite of one of its ministers, Seth Noble. It was incorporated as a city in 1834. Pop. (1870) 18,289; (1880) 16,856; (1890) 19,103.