The local municipality () is the lowest unit of local government in Quebec, Canada and is distinguished from the higher-level
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 ...
, or RCM, a municipal government at the supralocal level.
Eight municipalities are further subdivided into
boroughs.
There are also eleven
agglomerations
An urban area, built-up area or urban agglomeration is a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities, ...
grouping a number of municipalities and exercising some of the powers that would be exercised by a municipality elsewhere in Quebec.
With the exception of some Aboriginal communities, municipalities are governed by the ''Towns and Cities Act'' and the ''Municipal Code of Québec''.
See also
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List of municipalities in Quebec
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Quebec is the second-most populous province in Canada with 8,501,833 residents as of 2021 and is the largest in land area at . For statistical purposes, the province is divided into 1,282 census subdivisions, which are m ...
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List of communities in Quebec
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Classification of municipalities in Quebec
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Municipal history of Quebec
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Municipal reorganization in Quebec
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List of boroughs in Quebec
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Administrative divisions of Quebec
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Kativik Regional Government
References
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