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Municipalities are governed primarily by the Code municipal du Québec (Municipal Code of Québec, R.S.Q. c. C-27.1), [1] whereas cities and towns are governed by the Loi sur les cités et villes (Cities and Towns Act, R.S.Q. c. C-19) [2] as well as (in the case of the older ones) various individual charters. [citation needed]
A regional county municipality (French: Municipalité régionale de comté) in Quebec is a membership of numerous local municipalities, which in some cases can include unorganized territories, that was formed to administer certain services at the regional level such as waste management, public transit, land use planning and development, property assessment, etc. [14] Its council comprises the ...
This is the list of municipalities that have the Quebec municipality type of city (ville, code=V), ... Total cities — — — 7,166,179 ...
There are 87 RCMs and 17 TEs in Quebec, for a total of 104 MRCGs. 14 of the TEs correspond exactly (or very nearly correspond) to cities or urban agglomerations. [1] The only 3 exceptional cases are the TEs of Jamésie, Kativik and Eeyou Istchee. These TEs lie in Northern Quebec and cover large areas with many, mostly small, municipalities.
Quebec has 1,110 municipalities across 6 different municipal status types, including 227 cities/towns (French: villes), 145 parishes (French: paroisses), 42 townships (French: cantons), 2 united townships (French: cantons unis), 44 villages, and 650 with generic "municipality" (French: municipalités).
This is a list of communities in Quebec. Currently, local municipalities belonging to a regional county municipality are not listed, but they can be accessed through the link to their regional county municipality.
Quebec has a multi-tier system, with a layer of government between the municipality and the province, for example urban agglomeration, regional county municipality, or metropolitan community. Montreal , Quebec City , Longueuil , Sherbrooke , Saguenay , Lévis , Métis-sur-Mer and Grenville-sur-la-Rouge are divided into arrondissements (boroughs ...
Note that although the terms "city" and "town" are both used in the category name because of common English usage, Quebec does not distinguish between cities and towns under law; this category thus includes all villes, regardless of whether they are referred to as cities or towns by English speakers.