Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality

Les Appalaches
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 46°05′N 71°18′W / 46.083°N 71.300°W / 46.083; -71.300Coordinates: 46°05′N 71°18′W / 46.083°N 71.300°W / 46.083; -71.300
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Thetford Mines
Settlements	List Cities Disraeli Thetford Mines   Municipalities Beaulac-Garthby East Broughton Irlande Kinnear's Mills Saint-Adrien-d'Irlande Sainte-Clotilde-de-Beauce Saint-Fortunat Saint-Jacques-de-Leeds Saint-Jean-de-Brébeuf Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine Saint-Julien Saint-Pierre-de-Broughton   Parishes Disraeli Sacré-Coeur-de-Jésus Sainte-Praxède Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur-de-Wolfestown
Government
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Ghislain Hamel
Area
• Total	1,987.10 km2 (767.22 sq mi)
• Land	1,912.88 km2 (738.57 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	43,120
• Density	22.5/km2 (58/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	0.6%
• Dwellings	22,306
Time zone	EST (UTC−5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−4)
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Website	www.mrc desappalaches.ca

Les Appalaches ((French) Municipalité régionale de comté des Appalaches) is a regional county municipality (RCM) in the Chaudière-Appalaches region in southeastern Quebec, Canada. It was established in 1982 from parts of the historic counties of Beauce, Frontenac, Mégantic, and Wolfe. The county seat and largest city is Thetford Mines.

The name of the RCM is linked to its location in the Appalachian Mountains with Mounts Adstock, Caribou, Oak, and Saint-Adrien being the highest. Until 2008, it was known as L'Amiante Regional County Municipality, because of the importance of asbestos mining in the region (amiante is French for "asbestos").

There are 19 subdivisions within the RCM:

(Statistics Canada, 2006)

Mother tongue language from Canada 2006 Census

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:

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