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Quebec has a number of regions that go by historical and traditional names. Often, they have similar but distinct French and English names. Abitibi; Lower Saint Lawrence (Bas-Saint-Laurent) Beauce (within Chaudière-Appalaches) Bois-Francs (within Centre-du-Québec) Charlevoix (eastern part of the Capitale-Nationale administrative region ...
The South Shore (French: Rive-Sud) is the general term for the suburbs of Montreal, Quebec located on the southern shore of the Saint Lawrence River opposite the Island of Montreal. The South Shore is located within the Quebec administrative region of Montérégie. The largest city on the South Shore area is Longueuil.
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.
The region's landscape features mixed forest to the south across the Témiscamingue area which falls within the St. Laurence watershed of southern Quebec, while boreal forest covers the Abitibi section further north in the Hudson Bay watershed of northern Quebec. The southern part of the region has a humid continental climate, while the ...
Montreal, Quebec City, Longueuil, Sherbrooke, Saguenay, Lévis, Métis-sur-Mer and Grenville-sur-la-Rouge are divided into arrondissements (boroughs), sub-municipal entities that have mayors and councillors. Elections are held across the province on the same day in every municipality every four years. [2]
Quebec [a] is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada, whose frontiers contain eleven indigenous nations and the Québec nation.It is the largest province of the country by area [b] and is located in Central Canada.
Brossard (/ b r ɒ ˈ s ɑːr, ˈ b r ɒ s ɑːr d / bross-AR, BROSS-ard, French:, locally [bʁɔsɑːʁ, bʁɔsɑɔ̯ʁ]) is a municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada and is part of the Greater Montreal area.
The region had a population of 1,507,070 as of the 2016 census and a land area of 11,132.34 square kilometres (4,298.22 sq mi), giving it a population density of 135.4 inhabitants per square kilometre (351 inhabitants/sq mi). [1] With approximately 18.5% of the province's population, it is the second most populous region of Quebec after Montreal.