Joliette is a
regional county municipality 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.
Geog ...
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.
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:
;Cities & Towns (3)
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Joliette
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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 ...
;Municipalities (6)
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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
* List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec
References
Regional county municipalities in Lanaudière
Census divisions of Quebec
Joliette
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