Le Haut-Richelieu Regional County Municipality ''(Upper Richelieu)'' 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
Montérégie
Montérégie () is an administrative region in the southwest part of Quebec. It includes the cities of Boucherville, Brossard, Châteauguay, Longueuil, Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield and Vaudreuil-Dorion.
The ...
region in southwestern
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 in
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu () is a city in eastern Montérégie in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec, about southeast of Montreal. It is situated on the west bank of the Richelieu River at the northernmost naviga ...
. It is named for the
Richelieu River
The Richelieu River () is a river of Quebec, Canada, and a major right-bank tributary of the St. Lawrence River. It rises at Lake Champlain, from which it flows northward through Quebec and empties into the St. Lawrence. It was formerly kno ...
which runs south-north through it.
Subdivisions
There are 14 subdivisions within the RCM:
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Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu () is a city in eastern Montérégie in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec, about southeast of Montreal. It is situated on the west bank of the Richelieu River at the northernmost naviga ...
;Municipalities (12)
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Clarenceville
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Henryville
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Lacolle
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Mont-Saint-Grégoire
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Noyan
''Noyan'' (pl. noyad), or ''Toyon'', was a Central Asian title of authority which was used to refer to civil-military leaders of noble ancestry in the Central Asian Turkic Khanates with origins in ''Noyon'', which was used as a title of authori ...
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Saint-Alexandre
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Saint-Blaise-sur-Richelieu
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Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix
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Saint-Sébastien
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Saint-Valentin
Saint-Valentin () is a commune in the Indre department in central France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Indre department
The following is a list of the 241 communes of the Indre department of France.
The communes cooperate in the ...
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Sainte-Brigide-d'Iberville
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Venise-en-Québec
;Parishes (1)
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Sainte-Anne-de-Sabrevois
Demographics
Population
Language
Transportation
Access Routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:
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References
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Census divisions of Quebec