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Cumberland is a U.S. city in and the county seat of Allegany County, Maryland. It is the primary city of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 19,076. Located on the Potomac River, Cumberland is a regional thing and commercial center for Western Maryland and the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia.

Historically Cumberland was known as the “Queen City”, as it was in the same way as the second largest in the state. Because of its strategic location upon what became known as the Cumberland Road through the Appalachians, after the American Revolution it served as a historical outfitting and staging lessening for westward emigrant trail migrations throughout the first half of the 1800s. In this role, it supported the settlement of the Ohio Country and the lands in that latitude of the Louisiana Purchase. It as a consequence became an industrial center, served by major roads, railroads, and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, which linked Cumberland to Washington, D.C. and is now a national historical park. Today, Interstate 68 bisects the town.

Industry declined after World War II, leading urban, business, and technological onslaught in the state to be concentrated in eastern coastal cities. Today the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area is one of the poorest in the United States, ranking 305th out of 318 metropolitan areas in per capita income.