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List of municipalities in Quebec


Quebec is the second-most populous province in Canada with 7,903,001 residents as of 2011 and is the largest in land area at approximately 1,357,000 km2 (524,000 sq mi). In 2011, Quebec's 1,111 municipalities covered 37.7% of the province's land mass yet were home to 99.3% of its population.

The Government of Quebec's Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Land Occupancy recognizes seven types of municipalities – cities (cités), parishes (paroisses), municipalities (municipalités), towns (villes), townships (cantons), united townships (cantons unis) and villages (villages).

Of Quebec's 1,111 municipalities, 640 or 58% of them are simply "municipalities". Of the remaining 471, there are 158 parishes, 223 towns, 44 townships, 2 united townships and 44 villages. Despite still being a legal municipal status, there are no longer any cities in Quebec.

In 2011, just over 21% of Quebec's population resided in Montreal, its largest municipality. L'Île-Dorval is Quebec's smallest municipality by population with 5 people. The largest municipality by land area is Baie-James at 297,333 km2 (114,801 sq mi), while the smallest by land area is Notre-Dame-des-Anges at 0.04 km2 (0.015 sq mi).


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