Le Haut-Richelieu | |
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Regional county municipality | |
Location in province of Quebec. |
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Coordinates: 45°12′N 73°14′W / 45.200°N 73.233°WCoordinates: 45°12′N 73°14′W / 45.200°N 73.233°W | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Montérégie |
Effective | January 1, 1982 |
County seat | Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu |
Government | |
• Type | Prefecture |
• Prefect | Gilles Dolbec |
Area | |
• Total | 999.70 km2 (385.99 sq mi) |
• Land | 936.26 km2 (361.49 sq mi) |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 114,344 |
• Density | 122.1/km2 (316/sq mi) |
• Pop 2006-2011 | 5.0% |
• Dwellings | 50,665 |
Time zone | EST (UTC−5) |
• Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) |
Area code(s) | 450 and 579 |
Website | www |
Le Haut-Richelieu (Upper Richelieu) is a regional county municipality in the Montérégie region in southwestern Quebec, Canada. Its seat is in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. It is named for the Richelieu River which runs south-north through it.
There are 14 subdivisions within the RCM:
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border: