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Saint-Prime is a
municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality ...
in
Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Government of Canada, Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is ...
, Canada, located within the
regional county municipality The term regional county municipality or RCM (''french: municipalité régionale de comté, 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 r ...
of
Le Domaine-du-Roy Le Domaine-du-Roy ''(The King's Domain)'' is a regional county municipality in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is in Roberval, Quebec, Roberval, and it is named for the King of France, who owned the land at the time ...
. The municipality had a population of 2,758 as of the Canada 2011 Census, and a land area of 147.16 km2.


Demographics

Population trend: * Population in 2011: 2758 (2006 to 2011 population change: 3.6%) * Population in 2006: 2661 * Population in 2001: 2702 * Population in 1996: 2685 * Population in 1991: 2522 Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 1,094 (total dwellings: 1,216) Mother tongue: * English as first language: 0% * French as first language: 98.9% * English and French as first language: 0% * Other as first language: 1.1%


Climate

Saint-Prime has a
humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freez ...
that is some way above the subarctic classification due to its warm summers. Winters, however, are very cold and the seasonal differences are severe, although not extreme by Canadian or Quebec standards. Precipitation levels are high, bringing much snowfall in winter, but are by no means extreme compared to adjacent areas.


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Le Domaine-du-Roy Regional County Municipality Le Domaine-du-Roy ''(The King's Domain)'' is a regional county municipality in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is in Roberval, and it is named for the King of France, who owned the land at the time of the colonizat ...
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Lac Saint-Jean Lac Saint-Jean (Canadian French: ) is a large, relatively shallow lake in south-central Quebec, Canada, in the Laurentian Highlands. It is situated north of the Saint Lawrence River, into which it drains via the Saguenay River. It covers an area ...
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Rivière à l'Ours (Ashuapmushuan River) Rivière à l'Ours may refer to: * Rivière à l'Ours (Témiscamingue), a tributary of the Ottawa River in Les Lacs-du-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada * Rivière à l'Ours (rivière des Aulnaies), a tributary of rivière des Aulnaies in Saint-Ambr ...
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Rivière du Castor (rivière à l'Ours) The rivière du Castor (''English: River of the Beaver'') is a tributary of Rivière à l'Ours, flowing successively in the municipalities of Sainte-Hedwidge and Saint-Prime, in the Le Domaine-du-Roy Regional County Municipality, in the administ ...
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Ovide River The Ovide River is a tributary of rivière à l'Ours (Ashuapmushuan River tributary), rivière à l'Ours, flowing successively in the unorganized territory of Lac-Ashuapmushuan, Quebec, Lac-Ashuapmushuan, in the municipalities of Sainte-Hedwidge, ...
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Rivière aux Iroquois The rivière aux Iroquois is a tributary of lac Saint-Jean, flowing the municipality of Sainte-Hedwidge and Saint-Prime, in the Le Domaine-du-Roy Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in the prov ...
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Rivière à la Chasse (lac Saint-Jean) The Chasse River is a tributary of lac Saint-Jean, flowing the municipality of Sainte-Hedwidge and Saint-Prime, in the Le Domaine-du-Roy Regional County Municipality in the administrative region of Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in the province of Q ...
{{authority control Municipalities in Quebec Incorporated places in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean