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Montreal [a] is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the ninth-largest in North America.It was founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", [19] and is now named after Mount Royal, [20] the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. [21]
Montreal is the second largest city in Canada and the largest city in the province of Quebec, located along the Saint Lawrence River at its junction with the Ottawa River. The city is geographically constrained, with the majority on the Island of Montreal in the Hochelaga Archipelago , and has several prominent features, including the eponymous ...
Greater Montreal (French: Grand Montréal, [ɡʁɑ̃ mɔ̃ʁeal]) is the most populous metropolitan area in Quebec and the second most populous in Canada after Greater Toronto. In 2015, Statistics Canada identified Montreal 's Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) as 4,258.31 square kilometres (1,644.14 sq mi) with a population of 4,027,100, [ 5 ...
Satellite view of three Monteregian Hills (Saint Hilaire, Rougemont, and Yamaska) in Saint Lawrence Lowlands Jacques-Cartier River. Quebec's highest point at 1,652 m (5,420 ft) is Mont d'Iberville, known in English as Mount Caubvick, located on the border with Newfoundland and Labrador in the northeastern part of the province, in the Torngat Mountains. [7]
Quebec's closest international partner is the United States, with which it shares a long and positive history. Products of American culture like songs, movies, fashion and food strongly affect Québécois culture. Quebec has a historied relationship with France, as Quebec was a part of the French Empire and both regions share a language.
Map of New France (Champlain, 1612). "Montreal" is visible on the map next to a mountain in the approximate location. A more precise map was drawn by Champlain in 1632. The first French name for the island was l'ille de Vilmenon, noted by Samuel de Champlain in a 1616 map, and derived from the sieur de Vilmenon, a patron of the founders of Quebec at the court of Louis XIII.
Quebec City [a] is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec.As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, [13] and the Census Metropolitan Area (including surrounding communities) [14] had a population of 839,311. [15]
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.