Statistics Canada divides
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 ...
into 98
census divisions largely coextensive with the
regional county municipalities
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 ...
of the province (of Quebec's 87 regional county municipalities, 82 have coextensive borders with Statistics Canada census divisions).
Quebec's census divisions consist of numerous
census subdivision
The census geographic units of Canada are the census subdivisions defined and used by Canada's federal government statistics bureau Statistics Canada to conduct the country's quinquennial census. These areas exist solely for the purposes of stat ...
s. The types of census subdivisions within a Quebec census division may include:
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cities and towns (''ville''),
"ordinary" municipalities (''municipalité''),
parish municipalities (''paroisse''),
townships
A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries.
Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...
(''canton'') and
united townships (''cantons unis''),
villages
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
(''village'')
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Cree villages (''village cri''),
northern villages (''village nordique'', i.e., Inuit), and one
Naskapi
The Naskapi (Nascapi, Naskapee, Nascapee) are an Indigenous people of the Subarctic native to the historical country St'aschinuw (ᒋᑦ ᐊᔅᒋᓄᐤ, meaning 'our nclusiveland'), which is located in northern Quebec and Labrador, neighb ...
village (''village Naskapi'')
*Land reserved to Crees (''Terres réservées aux Cris''), Inuit land (''Terre inuite''), Naskapi land (''Terres réservées aux Naskapis'')
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Indian reserves
In Canada, an Indian reserve (french: réserve indienne) is specified by the '' Indian Act'' as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty,
that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band."
Ind ...
and
Indian settlements
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Unorganized territories
List of census divisions
The following is a list of Quebec's census divisions, as of the
2011 census.
See also
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Types of municipalities in Quebec
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Administrative divisions of Quebec
The province of Quebec is divided into entities that deliver local government, along with other types of functional divisions.
Local municipalities
The primary level of local organization is the local municipality. This general term include ...
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List of regional county municipalities 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 municipality
References
External links
Statistics Canada: Subprovincial geography levels: Quebec
{{DEFAULTSORT:Census divisions of Quebec
Lists of populated places in Quebec