Joliette is a
regional county municipality
The term regional county municipality or RCM (''french: municipalité régionale de comté, MRC'') is used in Quebec, Canada to refer to one of 87 county-like political entities. In some older English translations they were called county r ...
in the
Lanaudière
Lanaudière (, ) is one of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada, situated immediately to the northeast of Montreal. It has a total population ( 2016 Census) of 494,796 inhabitants, an increase of 4.9% over the 2011 census.
Geogr ...
region of
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
, Canada. Its seat is
Joliette
Joliette is a city in southwest Quebec, Canada. It is approximately northeast of Montreal, on the L'Assomption River and is the seat of the Regional County Municipality of Joliette. It is considered to be a part of the North Shore of Greate ...
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The municipality has a land area of 417.41 km
2 and its
2021 census population of 71,124 inhabitants.
Subdivisions
There are 10 subdivisions within the RCM:
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Joliette
Joliette is a city in southwest Quebec, Canada. It is approximately northeast of Montreal, on the L'Assomption River and is the seat of the Regional County Municipality of Joliette. It is considered to be a part of the North Shore of Greate ...
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Notre-Dame-des-Prairies
Notre-Dame-des-Prairies is a town in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Joliette Regional County Municipality. It is a suburb of Joliette, located along the eastern shores of the L'Assomption River.
History
In 1950, the Parish ...
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Saint-Charles-Borromée
Saint-Charles-Borromée, Quebec ( 2021 Population 15,285) is a city in southwest-central Quebec, Canada, on the l'Assomption River. In Joliette Regional County Municipality, Saint-Charles-Borromée has the Maison Antoine-Lacombe, a heritage hom ...
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Crabtree
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Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes
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Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare
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Sainte-Mélanie
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Saint-Paul
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Saint-Thomas
;Villages (1)
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Saint-Pierre
Transportation
Access Routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:
Official Transport Quebec Road Map
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* External Routes
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See also
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References
Regional county municipalities in Lanaudière
Census divisions of Quebec
Joliette
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