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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.
For provincial statistical purposes, the Institut de la Statistique du Québec uses the following system so that the entire territory of Quebec is divided into 104 units known as municipalités régionales de comté géographiques (MRCG) "geographical regional county municipalities".
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 ...
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]
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. For a complete list, see List of municipalities in Quebec.
Regional county municipalities in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean (4 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Regional county municipalities in Quebec" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
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).
Regional county municipalities in Quebec (15 C, 2 P) T. Territories equivalent to a regional county municipality (4 C, ...