Saint-Prime is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

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, located within the regional county municipality of Le Domaine-du-Roy. The municipality had a population of 2,758 as of the Canada 2011 Census, and a land area of 147.16 km².

Demographics

Population trend: * Population in 2011: 2758 (2006 to 2011 population change: 3.6%) * Population in 2006: 2661 * Population in 2001: 2702 * Population in 1996: 2685 * Population in 1991: 2522 Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 1,094 (total dwellings: 1,216) Mother tongue: * English as first language: 0% * French as first language: 98.9% * English and French as first language: 0% * Other as first language: 1.1%

Climate

Saint-Prime has a

humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freezing ...

that is some way above the subarctic classification due to its warm summers. Winters, however, are very cold and the seasonal differences are severe, although not extreme by Canadian or Quebec standards. Precipitation levels are high, bringing much snowfall in winter, but are by no means extreme compared to adjacent areas.

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