Montréal, Quebec

Montreal
City
Montréal
From top to bottom, left to right: Downtown Montreal, Notre-Dame Basilica, Olympic Stadium, McGill University, Old Montreal featuring the Clock Tower and Jacques Cartier Bridge at the Fireworks Festival, Saint Joseph's Oratory
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Nickname(s): "MTL","Quebec's Metropolis", "The City of Festivals" "The City of Saints","The Metropolis", "The City of a Hundred Steeples", "Sin City"
Motto: Concordia Salus ("well-being through harmony")
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Coordinates: 45°30′N 73°34′W / 45.500°N 73.567°W / 45.500; -73.567Coordinates: 45°30′N 73°34′W / 45.500°N 73.567°W / 45.500; -73.567
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Montreal
UA	Urban agglomeration of Montreal
Founded	May 17, 1642
Incorporated	1832
Constituted	January 1, 2002
Boroughs	List Ahuntsic-Cartierville Anjou Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève LaSalle Lachine Le Plateau-Mont-Royal Le Sud-Ouest Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Montréal-Nord Outremont Pierrefonds-Roxboro Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie Saint-Laurent Saint-Léonard Verdun Ville-Marie Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension
Government
• Type	Montreal City Council
• Mayor	Denis Coderre
• Federal riding	List Ahuntsic Bourassa Hochelaga Honoré-Mercier Jeanne-Le Ber La Pointe-de-l'Île Lac-Saint-Louis LaSalle—Émard Laurier—Sainte-Marie Mount Royal Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine Outremont Papineau Pierrefonds—Dollard Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie Saint-Laurent—Cartierville Saint-Léonard—Saint-Michel Westmount—Ville-Marie
• Prov. riding	List Acadie Anjou–Louis-Riel Bourassa-Sauvé Bourget Crémazie D'Arcy-McGee Gouin Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Jeanne-Mance–Viger LaFontaine Laurier-Dorion Marguerite-Bourgeoys Marquette Mercier Mont-Royal Nelligan Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Outremont Pointe-aux-Trembles Robert-Baldwin Rosemont Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne Saint-Laurent Sainte-Marie–Saint-Jacques Verdun Viau Westmount–Saint-Louis
• MPs	List of MPs Frank Baylis Mario Beaulieu Alexandre Boulerice Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet Anju Dhillon Nicola Di Iorio Stéphane Dion Emmanuel Dubourg Fayçal El-Khoury Marc Garneau Anthony Housefather Angelo Iacono Mélanie Joly David Lametti Hélène Laverdière Marc Miller Eva Nassif Yves Robillard Pablo Rodríguez Francis Scarpaleggia Justin Trudeau Tom Mulcair
Area
• City	431.50 km2 (166.60 sq mi)
• Land	365.13 km2 (140.98 sq mi)
• Urban	1,545.30 km2 (596.64 sq mi)
• Metro	4,258.31 km2 (1,644.14 sq mi)
Highest elevation	233 m (764 ft)
Lowest elevation	6 m (20 ft)
Population (2011)
• City	1,649,519
• Density	4,517.6/km2 (11,701/sq mi)
• Urban	3,407,963
• Urban density	2,205.4/km2 (5,712/sq mi)
• Metro	3,824,221 (2nd)
• Metro density	898.1/km2 (2,326/sq mi)
• Pop 2006–2011	1.8%
• Dwellings	813,819
Demonym(s)	Montrealer Montréalais(e)
Time zone	EST (UTC−5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−4)
Postal code(s)	H (except H7 for Laval)
Area code(s)	514 and 438
GDP	US$ 155.9 billion
GDP per capita	US$ 38,867
Website	ville.montreal.qc.ca

Montreal (ⁱ/ˌmʌntriːˈɒl/;pronounced: [mɔ̃ʁeal]) (officially Montréal), is the most populous municipality in Quebec and the 2nd-most populous in Canada. Originally called Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary," it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. The city is on the Island of Montreal, which took its name from the same source as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. It has a distinct four-season continental climate with warm to hot summers and cold snowy winters.

In 2011 the city had a population of 1,649,519. Montreal's metropolitan area had a population of 3,824,221 and a population of 1,886,481 in the urban agglomeration, with all of the municipalities on the Island of Montreal included. The 2014 estimate of the population of the metropolitan area of Montreal is 4.1 million.French is the city's official language and is the language spoken at home by 56.9% of the population of the city, followed by English at 18.6% and 19.8% other languages (in the 2006 census). In the larger Montreal Census Metropolitan Area, 67.9% of the population speaks French at home, compared to 16.5% who speak English. The agglomeration Montreal is one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada with 56% of the population able to speak both English and French. Montreal is the second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the world, after Paris.