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List of regions of Quebec. The seventeen administrative regions of Quebec. The province of Quebec, Canada, is officially divided into 17 administrative regions. Traditionally (and unofficially), it is divided into around twenty regions.
Voici une liste des divisions administratives du Québec : régions administratives, municipalités régionales de comté (MRC), administration régionale, municipalités hors MRC et territoires autochtones. Pour la liste des municipalités faisant partie d'une MRC, voir l'article de cette MRC.
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The primary level of local organization is the local municipality. This general term includes specific types of municipalities in Quebecsuch as city or town, municipality, village, parish, township, and northern village. Municipal governments are authorities that are elected locally to provide services that are best managed locally. Revenue for ser...
Regional county municipalities
Regional county municipalities coordinate among neighbouring municipalities on services. There are 86 in total. Most municipalities belong to an RCM. None of the municipalities in the Urban agglomeration of Montreal are in an RCM. Other municipalities have certain powers usually reserved for RCMs, including Québec, Saguenay, Trois-Rivières, Longueuil, Lévis, Shawinigan, Sherbrooke, Laval, Mirabel, Rouyn-Noranda, Gatineau, Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine and La Tuque. RCMs have responsibility for ter...
Metropolitan communities
Metropolitan communities have responsibility for areas of common interest to their constituent municipalities such as urban planning, economic development, promotion of international trade, artistic and cultural development, public transportation and waste management. Each CM also has specific areas of jurisdiction defined by the legislation governing it. There are two metropolitan communities or CMs in Quebec: 1. The Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal comprises 82 municipalities, encompas...
Administrative regions
There are 17 administrative regions of Quebec.They have no government, but serve to organize the provision of provincial services. They are: 1. 01 Bas-Saint-Laurent 2. 02 Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean 3. 03 Capitale-Nationale 4. 04 Mauricie 5. 05 Estrie 6. 06 Montréal 7. 07 Outaouais 8. 08 Abitibi-Témiscamingue 9. 09 Côte-Nord 10. 10 Nord-du-Québec 11. 11 Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine 12. 12 Chaudière-Appalaches 13. 13 Laval 14. 14 Lanaudière 15. 15 Laurentides 16. 16 Montérégie 17. 17 Centre-du-Qu...
Census areas
Statistics Canada divides the province into census divisions, designated places, population centres, and economic regions.
Health authorities
The Ministry of Health and Social Servicesserves 18 health regions.
Lists of entities: boroughs, communities, municipalities, parish municipalities, towns, township municipalities, united township municipalities, unorganized territories, village municipalities, reg...Capitale-Nationale ( French pronunciation: [kapital nɑsjɔnal]; English: National Capital region) is one of the 17 administrative regions of Quebec. It is anchored by the provincial capital, Quebec City, and is largely coextensive with that city's metropolitan area. It has a land area of 18,797.45 km 2.
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Capitale-Nationale (8 C, 9 P) Centre-du-Québec (8 C, 4 P) Chaudière-Appalaches (9 C, 7 P) Côte-Nord (8 C, 8 P)
Nord-du-Québec ( French pronunciation: [nɔʁ dy kebɛk]; English: Northern Quebec) is the largest, but the least populous, of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada. With nearly 750,000 square kilometres (290,000 sq mi) of land area, and very extensive lakes and rivers, it covers much of the Labrador Peninsula and about 55% of ...
