La Haute-Côte-Nord () 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 northeastern

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, Canada, in the

Côte-Nord Côte-Nord (Region 09) (, ; ) is an List of regions of Quebec, administrative region of Quebec, on the Quebec-Labrador peninsula, Quebec-Labrador Peninsula, Canada. The region runs along the St. Lawrence River and then the Gulf of St. Lawrence, ...

region. It is located on the Gulf of St. Lawrence where the

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flows into it. The seat is Les Escoumins. The municipality has a land area of and its population was 10,278 inhabitants as of the 2021 census. Its largest community is the city of Forestville. Except for Sacré-Coeur, which is located along the

, all places and municipalities of the RCM are along

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directly on the shores of the

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. The unorganized territory of Lac-au-Brochet makes up some 83% of the interior part of the RCM.

Subdivisions

There are 9 subdivisions and one native reserve within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (1) * Forestville ;Municipalities (6) * Colombier *

Les Bergeronnes Les Bergeronnes () is a Types of municipalities in Quebec, municipality in the Côte-Nord List of regions of Quebec, region of the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec in Canada. The municipality includes the communities of Gra ...

* Les Escoumins * Longue-Rive * Portneuf-sur-Mer (formerly Sainte-Anne-de-Portneuf) * Sacré-Coeur ;Villages (1) *

Tadoussac Tadoussac () is a village municipality in La Haute-Côte-Nord RCM (Regional County Municipality), on the north shore of the maritime section of the estuary of St. Lawrence river, in Côte-Nord region, Quebec, Canada. Geography Tadoussac is ...

;Unorganized Territory (1) * Lac-au-Brochet ;Native Reserves (1)
(not associated with RCM) * Essipit

Demographics

Transportation

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
/ref> * Autoroutes ** None * Principal Highways ** ** * Secondary Highways ** None * External Routes ** None

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