La Côte-de-Gaspé Regional County Municipality
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La Côte-de-Gaspé 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 ...
on the
Gaspé peninsula The Gaspé Peninsula, also known as Gaspesia (; ), is a peninsula along the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River that extends from the Matapedia Valley in Quebec, Canada, into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. It is separated from New Brunswick o ...
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, part of the
Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine () is an administrative region of Quebec consisting of the Gaspé Peninsula (''Gaspésie'') and the Magdalen Islands, Îles-de-la-Madeleine. It lies in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence at the eastern extreme of southe ...
region. The seat is Gaspé. The regional county has a land area of and its population was 17,117 inhabitants as of the 2016 Census. Its largest community is the city of Gaspé.


Subdivisions

There are 7 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (2) * Gaspé * Murdochville ;Municipalities (2) * Grande-Vallée * Petite-Vallée ;Townships (1) * Cloridorme ;Unorganized Territory (2) * Collines-du-Basque * Rivière-Saint-Jean


Demographics


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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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See also

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List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec This is a list of the regional county municipalities (RCM or MRC) and equivalent territories (TE) in the province of Quebec, Canada. They are given along with their geographical codes as specified by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions ...


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Regional county municipalities in Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine Census divisions of Quebec {{Quebec-geo-stub