The province of Quebec, Canada, is officially divided into 17 administrative regions. Traditionally (and unofficially), it is divided into around twenty regions. They have no government of their own, but rather serve primarily to organize the provision of provincial government services, most significantly the allocation of regional economic development funding. As of the 2021 Canadian census, the population of Quebec was 8,501,833, the land area was 1,298,599.75 km2 (501,392.17 sq mi) and the population density was 15.9 inhabitants per square kilometre (41/sq mi). [1]
Administrative regions are used to organize the delivery of provincial government services. They were also the basis of organization for regional conferences of elected officers (French : conférences régionales des élus, CRÉ), with the exception of the Montérégie and Nord-du-Québec regions, which each had three CRÉs or equivalent bodies. In the Nord-du-Québec region, the Kativik Regional Government and Cree Regional Authority, in addition to their other functions, played the role of a CRÉ. The subregions of Montérégie and Nord-du-Québec had their own regional conference of elected officers (CRÉ).
Along with the administrative regions, municipalities with 20,000-plus populations in the 2021 Census are also indicated, with those 50,000 or more shown in bold print.
Code | Region | Population Canada 2021 Census [2] | Land area | Density (pop. per km2) | Major cities |
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01 | Bas-Saint-Laurent | 199,039 | 22,188.19 km2 (8,566.91 sq mi) | 9.0 | Rimouski , Rivière-du-Loup |
02 | Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean | 275,552 | 95,542.70 km2 (36,889.24 sq mi) | 2.9 | Alma, Saguenay |
03 | Capitale-Nationale | 757,950 | 18,684.78 km2 (7,214.23 sq mi) | 40.6 | Quebec City |
04 | Mauricie | 273,055 | 35,475.80 km2 (13,697.28 sq mi) | 7.7 | Shawinigan, Trois-Rivières |
05 | Estrie | 337,701 | 10,197.88 km2 (3,937.42 sq mi) | 33.1 | Granby , Magog, Sherbrooke |
06 | Montréal [lower-alpha 1] | 2,004,265 | 498.29 km2 (192.39 sq mi) | 4,022.3 | Côte-Saint-Luc, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Mont-Royal, Montreal , Pointe-Claire |
07 | Outaouais | 405,158 | 30,457.52 km2 (11,759.71 sq mi) | 13.3 | Gatineau |
08 | Abitibi-Témiscamingue | 147,082 | 57,325.74 km2 (22,133.59 sq mi) | 2.6 | Rouyn-Noranda, Val-d'Or |
09 | Côte-Nord | 88,525 | 234,442.27 km2 (90,518.67 sq mi) | 0.4 | Baie-Comeau, Sept-Îles |
10 | Nord-du-Québec | 45,740 | 707,306.52 km2 (273,092.57 sq mi) | 0.1 | |
11 | Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine | 89,342 | 20,271.24 km2 (7,826.77 sq mi) | 4.4 | |
12 | Chaudière-Appalaches | 433,312 | 15,071.51 km2 (5,819.14 sq mi) | 28.8 | Lévis , Saint-Georges, Thetford-Mines |
13 | Laval [lower-alpha 2] | 438,366 | 246.13 km2 (95.03 sq mi) | 1,781.0 | Laval |
14 | Lanaudière | 528,598 | 12,300.62 km2 (4,749.30 sq mi) | 43.0 | Joliette, L'Assomption, Mascouche , Repentigny , Saint-Lin-Laurentides, Terrebonne |
15 | Laurentides | 636,083 | 20,557.42 km2 (7,937.26 sq mi) | 30.9 | Blainville , Boisbriand, Mirabel , Saint-Eustache, Saint-Jérôme , Sainte-Thérèse |
16 | Montérégie | 1,591,620 | 11,111.82 km2 (4,290.30 sq mi) | 143.2 | Beloeil, Boucherville, Brossard , Candiac, Chambly, Châteauguay , La Prairie, Longueuil , Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Saint-Constant, Saint-Hyacinthe , Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu , Saint-Lambert, Saint-Lazare, Sainte-Julie, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Sorel-Tracy, Varennes, Vaudreuil-Dorion |
17 | Centre-du-Québec | 250,445 | 6,921.32 km2 (2,672.34 sq mi) | 36.2 | Drummondville , Victoriaville |
Total | 8,501,833 | 1,298,599.75 km2 (501,392.17 sq mi) | 6.5 | ||
Quebec has a number of regions that go by historical and traditional names. Often, they have similar but distinct French and English names.
Nord-du-Québec 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 the total land surface area of Quebec, while containing a little more than 0.5% of the population.
Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean is a region in Quebec, Canada. It contains the Saguenay Fjord, the estuary of the Saguenay River, stretching through much of the region. It is also known as Sagamie in French, from the first part of "Saguenay" and the last part of "Piekouagami", the Innu name for Lac Saint-Jean, with the final "e" added to follow the model of other existing region names such as Mauricie, Témiscamie, Jamésie, and Matawinie. With a land area of 98,712.71 km2, the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean is, after the Nord-du-Québec and Côte-Nord regions, the third-largest of Quebec regions in the area.
Centre-du-Québec is a region of Quebec, Canada. The main centres are Drummondville, Victoriaville, and Bécancour. It has a land area of 6,930.05 square kilometres (2,675.71 sq mi) and a 2016 Census population of 242,399 inhabitants.
Montérégie is an administrative region in the southwest part of Quebec. It includes the cities of Boucherville, Brossard, Châteauguay, Longueuil, Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield and Vaudreuil-Dorion.
Montréal is one of the administrative regions of the Canadian province of Quebec. It is also a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and a census division (CD), for both of which its geographical code is 66. Prior to the merger of the municipalities in Region 06 in 2002, the administrative region was co-extensive with the Montreal Urban Community.
Mauricie is a traditional and current administrative region of Quebec. La Mauricie National Park is contained within the region, making tourism in Mauricie popular. The region has a land area of 35,860.05 km² and a population of 266,112 residents as of the 2016 Census. Its largest cities are Trois-Rivières and Shawinigan.
Capitale-Nationale 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 km2. It reported a total resident population of 729,997 as of the Canada 2016 Census, with Quebec City having 73.7 percent of the total.
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