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Montreal, Canada

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
Flag of Montreal
Flag
Coat of arms of Montreal
Coat of arms
Official logo of Montreal
Logo
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")
Montreal is located in Canada
Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is located in Quebec
Montreal
Montreal
Location of Montreal in Canada
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
Government
 • Type Montreal City Council
 • Mayor Denis Coderre
 • Federal riding
 • Prov. riding
 • MPs
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 Increase 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 (Listeni/ˌmʌntrˈɒl/;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.


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