L'Assomption () is a
regional county municipality
The term regional county municipality or RCM (, , 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 regional municipality.
Regional county municipalit ...
in the
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.
Geogr ...
region of
Quebec
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, Canada. The seat is
L'Assomption
L'Assomption () is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada on the L'Assomption River. It is the seat of the Regional County Municipality of L'Assomption. It is located on the outer fringes of the Montreal urban area. ...
. L'Assomption is located directly north of the city of
Montreal
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.
It is named for the
L'Assomption River
The Assomption River (in French ''Rivière l'Assomption'' , named after the Assumption of Mary) is the most important waterway in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada. It is over long, and has a drainage basin (watershed) of . Its source is t ...
, which flows through the region from the north before emptying into the
Saint Lawrence River
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in the south of the region at
Repentigny.
Subdivisions
There are 5 subdivisions within the RCM:
;Cities & Towns (4)
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Charlemagne
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L'Assomption
L'Assomption () is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada on the L'Assomption River. It is the seat of the Regional County Municipality of L'Assomption. It is located on the outer fringes of the Montreal urban area. ...
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L'Épiphanie
L'Épiphanie () is a town in Lanaudière, Quebec, Canada, located on the bank of the L'Achigan river. It has nearly 9,000 inhabitants and was 150 years old in 2004.
On May 23, 2018, the town was greatly enlarged when the L'Épiphanie, Quebec (pa ...
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Repentigny
;Parishes (1)
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Saint-Sulpice
Demographics
Population
Language
Transportation
Access Routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:
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* External Routes
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See also
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References
Regional county municipalities in Lanaudière
Census divisions of Quebec
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