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Regional county municipalities. A regional county municipality (French: Municipalité régionale de comté) in Quebec is a membership of numerous local municipalities, which in some cases can include unorganized territories, that was formed to administer certain services at the regional level such as waste management, public transit, land use planning and development, property assessment, etc ...
List[edit] Montreal is Quebec's largest city and Canada's second largest city. Quebec City is Quebec's capital and second largest city. Laval townhall. Gatineau is part of the National Capital Region. View of Saguenay. Name. Regional county municipality. Region.
There are 87 RCMs and 17 TEs in Quebec, for a total of 104 MRCGs. 14 of the TEs correspond exactly (or very nearly correspond) to cities or urban agglomerations. [1] The only 3 exceptional cases are the TEs of Jamésie, Kativik and Eeyou Istchee. These TEs lie in Northern Quebec and cover large areas with many, mostly small, municipalities.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Municipalities in Quebec. Quebec has 1,110 municipalities across 6 different municipal status types, including 227 cities/towns (French: villes ), 145 parishes (French: paroisses ), 42 townships (French: cantons ), 2 united townships (French: cantons unis ), 44 villages, and 650 with generic "municipality ...
Classification of municipalities in Quebec. The following is a list of the types of local and supralocal territorial units in Quebec, Canada, including those used solely for statistical purposes, as defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy and compiled by the Institut de la statistique du Québec .
Quebec was divided into counties until the early 1980s when they were dissolved and the province was divided into regional county municipalities. The Eastern Townships was an administrative region in southeastern Quebec. Since 1987, most of the area is within the administrative region Estrie, and the term Eastern Townships is now used in ...
682. Westbury. Le Haut-Saint-François. Estrie. 55.61. 1,097. The last previous township municipalities were: [1] Ristigouche-Partie-Sud-Est, which changed its status to an ordinary municipality and its name to Ristigouche-Sud-Est on March 9, 2024; Natashquan, which changed its status to an ordinary municipality on June 18, 2016;
Note that although the terms "city" and "town" are both used in the category name because of common English usage, Quebec does not distinguish between cities and towns under law; this category thus includes all villes, regardless of whether they are referred to as cities or towns by English speakers.