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The National Research Council (NRC) maintains Canada's official time through the use of atomic clocks. [3] The official time is specified in legislation passed by the individual provinces. In Quebec it is based on coordinated universal time. [4] The other provinces use mean solar time.
Map of Quebec. Located in the eastern part of Canada, Quebec occupies a territory nearly three times the size of France. [124] It holds an area of 1.5 million square kilometres (0.58 million square miles) and its borders are more than 12,000 km (7,500 mi) long. [125] [126] Most of Quebec is very sparsely populated.
English: Time zone map of Canada with English labels This map depicts observed time zones and observed time zone boundaries, some of which differ from those defined by provincial and territorial legislation. In areas with no road network and no inhabitants, the map falls back to using legislated time zone boundaries.
As of the 2021 Canadian census, the population of Quebec was 8,501,833, the land area was 1,298,599.75 km 2 (501,392.17 sq mi) and the population density was 6.54 inhabitants per square kilometre (16.9/sq mi).
Canada claims 22 km (12 nmi) of territorial sea, a contiguous zone of 44 km (24 nmi), an exclusive economic zone of 5,599,077 km 2 (2,161,816 sq mi) with 370 km (200 nmi) and a continental shelf of 370 km (200 nmi) or to the edge of the continental margin. Five per cent of Canada's land area is arable, none of which is for permanent crops.
In the regions of Canada that use daylight saving time, it begins on the second Sunday of March at 2 a.m. and ends on the first Sunday in November at 2 a.m. As a result, daylight saving time lasts in Canada for a total of 34 weeks (238 days) every year, about 65 percent of the entire year.
No area codes have been split in Canada since 1999. Area code 438 was considered for overlaying 450 as well, but a later decision determined instead that 579 would be the overlay code. [4] In February 2017, area code 263 was reserved as the third area code in the region, and was placed in service on October 22, 2022. [5]
Quebec City. Area codes 418, 581, and 367 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the eastern portion of the Canadian province of Quebec.Area code 418 was originally assigned to the numbering plan area, but all three area codes now form an overlay plan for this territory.