Overview
While the State of Maine may not have any obvious cultural similarities with the African continent, nor even share the history of brutal treatment of slaves with Africa for much of overlapping history except possibly at the very beginning, the State of Maine is, oddly enough, the closest U.S. State to Africa as a continent. Unsurprisingly, though this refers to a different portion of the State of Maine, it is also the closest state in the Contiguous United States to the continent of Europe, though when Canada enters the discussion, the island of Newfoundland is significantly closer to the European continent still.
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