As of 2008, Bangor is the third most-populous city in Maine, as it has been for more than a century.

Although Dow Air Force Base has been the city-owned Bangor International Airport since 1969, the US military and the Maine Air National Guard continue to house units there and share the runway.

The 132nd, which has been based in Bangor since 1947, and calls itself “ The MAINEiacs ”, was a fighter squadron until 1976.

Bangor or its alter ego Derry are the fictional settings for so many novels and stories by Stephen King that the city has become the capital of Transylmainia, a gothic horror-scape King invented largely by himself ( with some help from the 1960s television show Dark Shadows ).

In Rudyard Kipling's and Wolcott Balestier's The Naulahka: A Story of East and West, a family of missionaries in India hails from Bangor ( and even has their maple syrup delivered from home ).

Local historian Bill Sawtell has documented many facets of the history of Brownville as well as the surrounding area .< sup ></ sup > Sawtell has published numerous books, with subjects such as Katahdin Iron Works, the Highland Quarry, the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, and Penquis Valley High School basketball.

The Bangor District has an Adult Education building as well.

It has a population of 5, 000 including Llan Ffestiniog, which makes it the third largest town in Gwynedd unitary authority, behind Bangor and Caernarfon.

Bangor Marina is one of the largest in Ireland and the marina has on occasion been awarded the " Blue Flag " for attention to environmental issues.

Because of poor north-south transport links within Wales, it has always been easier for Welsh clubs to travel east-west so Welsh clubs tended to look east to England for competitors and many of the top semi-professional sides in Wales played in the English football league system ; Bangor City were founder members of the Football Conference ( then the Alliance Premier League ) in 1979 and reached the FA Trophy final in 1984, before transferring to the new League of Wales in 1992.

The Welsh Cup final defeat to Barry Town mentioned above has since been equalled on two occasions, in 1999-00 when they lost to Bangor City, and in 2002-03 when again Barry Town proved too strong, in a penalty shoot-out.

She has a brother Edward, two years her junior ; and a half-brother, William, who is the 8th Viscount Bangor, three years her senior.

It has six platforms ( four through, two terminal ) and provides direct rail services to Bidston ( for Liverpool Lime Street ), Manchester Piccadilly, Bangor, Birmingham, Crewe, Milton Keynes, Rugby, Cardiff, Chester, Holyhead, Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton and London.

Another claim to fame is that Bangor allegedly has the longest High Street in Wales and the United Kingdom.

Bangor has two rivers within its boundaries.

Bangor has a central shopping area around the High Street, and retail outlets on Caernarfon Road, on the outskirts of the city.

Bangor has a long-established football team, Bangor City F. C.

Bangor University also has its own student radio station called Storm FM, which broadcasts to the Ffriddoedd Site and from their website.

Berenger was born to descendant of French origin who were established in Mauritius in ancient generations. He has had his high studies in UK and France and in 1969 went to UK to study French and graduated from the Bangor University with a BA Hons in philosophy and French.

Government officials have longstanding political and business ties to DTE ," ( 5 ) " Extreme poverty and mass unemployment are decisive factors in deadly house fires ," ( 6 ) " Sylvia Young, the mother of the three children killed in the Bangor Street fire, has been wrongly victimized ," and ( 7 ) " DTE Energy, its executives and regulating agencies bear primary responsibility for the deaths of Marvin Allen, Tyrone Allen, Lynn Greer, and the three Young children.

The Racecourse has been used by Welsh teams such as Bangor City for their qualifying matches in the UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League, which they qualify for through the Welsh Premier League and the Welsh Cup.

Bangor has a long and varied history, from the Bronze Age people whose swords were discovered in 1949 or the Viking burial found on Ballyholme beach, to the Victorian pleasure seekers who travelled on the new railway from Belfast to take in the sea air.

This park has a small children's paddling pool, and was created as the original Pickie's was demolished due to the rejuvenation of Bangor seafront in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Atkin attended Friars School, Bangor and Christ College, Brecon and won a demyship to Magdalen College, Oxford where he read classics and literae humaniores, enjoying playing tennis in his leisure time.

Another indication of his growing power was that he was able to insist on the consecration of Welshmen to two vacant sees that year, Iorwerth as Bishop of St. David's and Cadwgan as Bishop of Bangor.

The equally fictional " Bangor Pine Hotel " was a location in two first-season scenes.

Large-scale slate operations required construction of the Monson Railroad in 1883 ; and two foot gauge locomotives transported slate and passengers to the larger Bangor and Aroostook Railroad in Abbot until 1943.

The Bangor Public Schools consist of two elementaries, Primary ( grades K-2 ) and South Walnut ( grades 3-5 ), Bangor Middle School ( grades 6-8 ) and Bangor High School ( grades 9-12 ).

Bregenz is twinned with Bangor in Northern Ireland, and various exchange trips take place between the two places.

Research carried out in the 1990s by David Crystal ( Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor ) suggested that at that time, on average, one language was falling into disuse every two weeks.

, only two Howard Johnson's restaurants remain, both dating to the original Howard Johnson's company, one in Lake Placid, New York, the other Bangor, Maine.

In the last few years in particular European results have been more competitive, with Rhyl, Carmarthen Town, Bangor City, The New Saints and Llanelli all beating clubs from other countries over two legs.

The A487 number applies to two sections of the Fishguard – Bangor trunk road with the A470 between Dolgellau and Gellilydan.

Ashmun was appointed as the first principal, and one of the first two professors, of the Bangor Theological Seminary in Bangor, Maine.

Bangor was also previously home to two commercial radio stations, Heart Cymru ( serving Anglesey and Gwynedd ) and the now-defunct Heart North Wales Coast ( serving the North Wales Coast ), which shared studio facilities on the Parc Menai office complex-the studios were closed in August 2010 after the stations were moved to Wrexham.

His mother, Clara ( née Hartley ), was of Protestant Irish ancestry, and his father, Reuben Cohen, was a Russian Jewish immigrant ; the two owned the Bangor Rye Bread Co.

The shield is emblazoned with two ships, which feature the Red Hand of Ulster on their sails, denoting that Bangor is in the Irish province of Ulster.

Bangor's hockey club is situated on the Old Belfast Road at Bangor Sportsplex, and comprises five men's teams, two women's teams and a large youth section.

Jones joined the choir of Bangor Cathedral at age nine and was lead soloist within two years, although he never made Head Chorister.

Davenport married Anne Lofthouse, whom he met at the University College of North Wales at Bangor, in 1944 ; they had two children, Richard and James.

Once these two sections had closed, only the line between Belfast and Bangor remained open.