Montréal

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 in both Canadian English and French, 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.