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Canada is divided into 10 provinces and three territories.The majority of Canada's population is concentrated in the areas close to the Canada–US border.Its four largest provinces by area (Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta) are also its most populous; together they account for 86.5 percent of the country's population.
In Quebec, about 42.6% of the population (3,328,725 people) report knowing both languages; this is the highest proportion of bilinguals in any Canadian province. [53] The federal electoral district of Lac-Saint-Louis , located in the Bilingual Belt , is the most bilingual area in the province with 72.8% of its residents claiming to know English ...
In 2023, Canada's population jumped by over 1 million people for the first time in the country's history. ... List of Canadian provinces and territories by Human ...
As of the 2021 Canadian census, the population of Quebec was 8,501,833, the land area was 1,298,599.75 km 2 (501,392.17 sq mi) and the population density was 6.54 inhabitants per square kilometre (16.9/sq mi). [1]
In the 2021 Census of Population, Statistics Canada listed 273 population centres in the province of Quebec. [2] Parts of two other population centres are adjacent to the provincial boundary with Ontario – the Gatineau portion of Ottawa-Gatineau [3] and the Grenville portion Hawkesbury. [4]
The table below lists the 100 largest census subdivisions (municipalities or municipal equivalents) in Canada by population, using data from the 2021 Canadian census for census subdivisions. [1] This list includes only the population within a census subdivision's boundaries as defined at the time of the census.
The main driver of population growth is immigration, [8] [9] with 6.2% of the country's population being made up of temporary residents as of 2023, [10] or about 2.5 million people. [11] Between 2011 and May 2016, Canada's population grew by 1.7 million people, with immigrants accounting for two-thirds of the increase.
Quebec is the only Canadian province whose population is mainly Francophone, meaning that French is their native language. In the 2011 Census , 6,102,210 people (78.1% of the population) recorded French as their sole native language and 6,249,085 (80.0%) recorded that they spoke French most often at home.