Bay Obaoca is an
unorganized territory forming part of the
Matawinie Regional County Municipality
Matawinie is a regional county municipality in the region of Lanaudière in southwestern Quebec, Canada. Its seat is Rawdon. The population according to the 2021 Canadian Census was 55,500.
Subdivisions
There are 27 subdivisions within the RC ...
which is part of the administrative region of
Lanaudière
Lanaudière (, ) is one of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada, situated immediately to the northeast of Montreal. It has a total population ( 2016 Census) of 494,796 inhabitants, an increase of 4.9% over the 2011 census.
Geog ...
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Quebec
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Toponymy
His name was formalized on March 13, 1986 in the Bank of place names of
Commission de toponymie du Québec (Geographical Names Board of Québec). It takes its name from the Obaoca Bay, located north-west end of
Kempt Lake (Matawinie).
Geography
This unorganized territory covers an area of .
Statistics Canada: Baie-Obaoca
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See also
*List of unorganized territories in Quebec
The following is a list of unincorporated areas (''territoires non organisés'') in Quebec.
There are no unorganized territories in the following administrative regions: Centre-du-Québec, Chaudière-Appalaches, Estrie, Laval, Montérégie, Mont ...
References
Unorganized territories in Lanaudière
Matawinie Regional County Municipality
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