La Matanie () 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 ...

, located in the

Bas-Saint-Laurent The Bas-Saint-Laurent (, 'Lower Saint-Lawrence) is an administrative region of Quebec located along the south shore of the lower Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The river widens at this place, later becoming a bay that discharges into the Atlan ...

region of

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, in

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. From January 1, 1982, to March 9, 2013, it was known as Matane. The county seat is the city of

Matane Matane () is a town on the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec, Canada, on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River at the mouth of the Matane River. The town is the seat for the La Matanie Regional County Municipality. In addition to Matane itse ...

Subdivisions

There are 12 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & towns (1) *

;Municipalities (7) *

Baie-des-Sables Baie-des-Sables () is a municipality in La Matanie Regional County Municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. Its elevation is . History The area was originally part of the Mitis seignory, purchased by Mathew MacNider in 18 ...

Grosses-Roches Grosses-Roches () is a municipality in Quebec, Canada. History Settlement began in the mid-19th century and the place was called Grosses-Roches (French for "big rocks"), referring to a large number of small, rounded, brownish rocks. In 1870, the ...

* Les Méchins * Sainte-Félicité *

Sainte-Paule Sainte-Paule () is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France. See also *Communes of the Rhône department The following is a list of the 208 communes of the Rhône department of France. This list does not includes the Lyon Metro ...

Saint-René-de-Matane Saint-René-de-Matane () is a municipality in Quebec, Canada. In addition to main population centre of Saint-René located along Quebec Route 195, the municipality also includes the communities of Le Renversé, Rivière-Matane, Ruisseau-Gagnon, ...

Saint-Ulric Saint-Ulric () is a municipality in the Regional County Municipality of La Matanie, in the province of Quebec, Canada. The population as of the 2021 Canadian census was 1,567. On January 12, 2000, the Village Municipality of Saint-Ulric and Pa ...

;Parishes (3) * Saint-Adelme *

Saint-Jean-de-Cherbourg Saint-Jean-de-Cherbourg () is a parish municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in La Matanie Regional County Municipality. Geography Climate Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, ...

* Saint-Léandre ;Unorganized territory (1) * Rivière-Bonjour

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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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Notable people

Isabelle Boulay Isabelle Boulay, (; born 6 July 1972) is a Canadian singer. Biography Born in Sainte-Félicité, Quebec, where her parents owned a restaurant, Boulay moved to the nearby city of Matane at the start of her adolescence, and studied literature a ...

, born at Sainte-Félicité * Alain Côté, born in 1957 at

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* {{Authority control Regional county municipalities in Bas-Saint-Laurent Census divisions of Quebec Matane