Les Basques ''(the

Basques The Basques ( or ; eu, euskaldunak ; es, vascos ; french: basques ) are a Southwestern European ethnic group, characterised by the Basque language, a common culture and shared genetic ancestry to the ancient Vascones and Aquitanians. Bas ...

)'' 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

Bas-Saint-Laurent The Bas-Saint-Laurent (Lower Saint-Lawrence), is an administrative region of Quebec located along the south shore of the lower Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The river widens at this place, later becoming a bay that discharges into the Atlanti ...

region in eastern

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. It is located on the south bank of the

Saint Lawrence River The St. Lawrence River (french: Fleuve Saint-Laurent, ) is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America. Its headwaters begin flowing from Lake Ontario in a (roughly) northeasterly direction, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, connectin ...

halfway between

Rimouski Rimouski ( ) is a city in Quebec, Canada. Rimouski is located in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region, at the mouth of the Rimouski River. It has a population of 48,935 (as of 2021). Rimouski is the site of Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), t ...

and

Rivière-du-Loup Rivière-du-Loup (; 2021 population 20,118) is a small city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the judicial district of Kamouraska. Its one of ...

. The county seat is in

Trois-Pistoles Trois-Pistoles is a city in Les Basques Regional County Municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. It is also the county seat. The town is located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River. A ferry crosses the river ...

Subdivisions

There are 12 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (1) *

;Municipalities (8) *

Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Notre-Dame-des-Neiges is a municipality in Quebec, Canada. It encircles the city of Trois-Pistoles and includes the offshore Île aux Basques. Geography Notre-Dame-des-Neiges is located on the southern slope of the St. Lawrence River, 250 ...

* Saint-Clément * Sainte-Rita * Saint-Guy *

Saint-Jean-de-Dieu Saint-Jean-de-Dieu is a municipality in Quebec, Canada. The municipality had a population of 1,606 in the Canada 2011 Census. The two main settlements within the municipality are the communities of Saint-Jean-de-Dieu and La Société. The settl ...

* Saint-Mathieu-de-Rioux * Saint-Médard *

Saint-Simon-de-Rimouski Saint-Simon-de-Rimouski is a municipality in the Les Basques Regional County Municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official n ...

;Parishes (2) * Sainte-Françoise * Saint-Éloi ;Unorganized Territory (1) * Lac-Boisbouscache

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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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{{Authority control Regional county municipalities in Bas-Saint-Laurent Census divisions of Quebec