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Belfast is a city in Waldo County, Maine, and the county seat of Waldo County, with a population of 6,938 at the 2020 census and 3,241 households.

Belfast is located at the mouth of the Passagassawakeag River estuary on Belfast Bay and Penobscot Bay.

The community was settled in 1770 and incorporated as a town on June 29, 1773, named after Belfast, then the principal port of embarkation for emigrants from the north of Ireland.

British forces burned Belfast in 1779 during the American Revolution and held it for five days in September 1814 during the War of 1812.

Belfast was incorporated as a city on August 17, 1850, becoming the eighth city in Maine, and it developed into a shipbuilding center producing hundreds of three, four, and five-masted schooners.

The city's Federal, Greek Revival, and Italianate mansions include the 1818 First Church by master-builder Samuel French and the 1857 Customs House and Post Office by architect Ammi B. Young.

After wooden shipbuilding faded around 1900, the local economy shifted to distributing seafood for the Boston and New York markets, and after World War II it was driven by the poultry industry, with the annual Broiler Festival as a popular summer event.

The Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad, largely city-owned, opened in 1871 and connected Belfast to the Maine Central Railroad main line at Burnham, 33 miles inland.

In the early 1990s, credit card company MBNA established two facilities in Belfast and helped establish the Hutchinson Center of the University of Maine, an outpost of the University of Maine System.

Shipbuilding returned to the Belfast waterfront in 1996 with French and Webb, classic wooden yacht builders, and the Front Street Shipyard opened a major boatyard on Belfast Bay in 2013.