Les Moulins () 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.
It is located immediately north of
Laval on the
north shore of the
Rivière des Mille-Îles, and comprises the municipalities of
Terrebonne and
Mascouche. Historic communities in the region, which are now
arrondissement
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Europe
France
The 101 French departments are divided into 342 ''arrondissem ...
s of the two existing cities, include
Lachenaie and
La Plaine.
The population according to the
2016 Canadian Census
The 2016 Canadian census was an enumeration of Canadian residents, which counted a population of 35,151,728, a change from its 2011 population of 33,476,688. The census, conducted by Statistics Canada, was Canada's seventh quinquennial census. ...
was 158,267
Subdivisions
There are 2 subdivisions within the RCM:
;Cities & Towns (2)
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Mascouche
*
Terrebonne
;Former municipalities (2)
*
La Plaine
*
Lachenaie
(Both are now sectors of
Terrebonne)
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
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* Autoroutes
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* Principal Highways
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* Secondary Highways
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* External Routes
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See also
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References
External links
MRC Les Moulins
Regional county municipalities in Lanaudière
Census divisions of Quebec
Terrebonne, Quebec
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