Maine

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ree natural land regions. They are, from southeast to northwest: 1. the Coastal Lowlands, 2. the Eastern New England Upland, and 3. the White Mountains Regions.
The Coastal Lowlands cover southeastern Maine. They are part of a region by the same name that stretches along the entire New England coast. In Maine, the region extends from 10 to 40 miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean. Old Orchard Beach, with 11 miles of hard-packed sand, is one of the longest and smoothest beaches on the Atlantic Coast. In the northeast, the beaches shrink to small bays or strips of sand between high cliffs.
Coastal Lowlands lie near sea level. The land was once said to be much higher than it is today. It was pushed down thousands of years ago, during the ice age, which ended about 11,500 years ago, by the weight of ice and snow.
The Eastern New England Upland lies northwest of the Coastal Lowlands; it extends from the Canadian border to Connecticut. In Maine, the region is from 20 to 50 miles wide. The land rises from elevations near sea level in the east to about 2,000 feet in the west.
The White Mountains Region covers northwestern Maine and part of New Hampshire and Vermont. In Maine, the region is about 5 miles wide in the north and 30 miles wide in the south. The White Mountains Regions includes hundreds of lakes and most of Maine’s highest mountains.

The Coastline of Maine accounts for many deep harbors and thousands of bays, coves, and inlets. The coastline measured in a straight-line total 228 miles. Yet, if all the area that is washed by water were measured the coastline would measure 3,478 miles.
Mountains. Mount Katahdin, Maine’s highest peak rises 5,268 feet in central part of the state. Nine other mountains are more than 4,000 feet high, and 97 others are over 3,000 feet high.
Rivers and Lakes. Maine has more than 5,000 rivers and streams. Two of the states primary rivers, the Andriscoggin and the Saco, begin in New Hampshire. ...