The city of Disraeli is located in the
Municipalité régionale de comté des Appalaches in
Quebec
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,
Canada
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. It is part of the
Chaudière-Appalaches region and the population is 2,570 as of 2009. It was named after British statesman and writer
Benjamin Disraeli.
The city of Disraeli forms an enclave in the territory of the parish of
Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman and Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a centr ...
and the two are separate legal entities.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
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conducted by
Statistics Canada, Disraeli had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Notable people
Henri Gagnon and Irène Marcotte, parents of
Rene Gagnon, one of the six
US Marines
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who raised the second
American flag
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atop Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945 as shown in the iconic photograph
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.
References
Commission de toponymie du QuébecMinistère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire
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Cities and towns in Quebec
Incorporated places in Chaudière-Appalaches
Canada geography articles needing translation from French Wikipedia