Located in the Acadia region of Maine, one of the most popular and scenic destinations in the country for summer visitors, Bangor is the third largest city in the state. Known as the Queen City of Maine, Bangor is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of the eastern and northern regions of the state. Fortunes were made in the nineteenth century in this former world capital of the timber industry, which exists today as a center for modern shopping malls, outlet centers, and industrial parks. Two of the latest editions of Macmillan's Places Rated Almanac rated Bangor as the best North American metropolitan area with a population of less than 100,000 people.