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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.
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 ...
The template then displays that region's regional county municipalities (RCMs) and equivalent territories and major municipalities. These are given in the same order as their codes found in the official list of municipalities here.
Lanaudière is generally rural, while the urban areas are generally concentrated in the south of the region, such as Repentigny, Terrebonne and Berthierville. The altitude rises as one goes northwards; it is 20 meters (66 ft) near the Saint Lawrence River to almost 800 meters (2,600 ft) at the top of mountains near Saint-Donat and Saint-Zénon .
The Quebec City metropolitan community consists of the Agglomoration of Quebec (containing four municipalities which do not belong to an RCM, and the municipalities in the RCMs of L'Île-d'Orleans parts of La Côte-de-Beaupré and La Jacques-Cartier. [8] The council is chaired by the mayor of Quebec City. [2]
Nord-du-Québec (French pronunciation: [nɔʁ d͜zy kebɛk]; English: Northern Quebec) is the largest, but the least populous, of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada. Spread over nearly 14 degrees of latitude, north of the 49th parallel, the region covers 860,692 km 2 (332,315 sq mi) on the Labrador Peninsula , making it ...
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.
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