Quebec City
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| Nickname(s): "La Vieille Capitale" | |||
| Motto: Don de Dieu feray valoir ("I shall put God's gift to good use"; the Don de Dieu was Champlain's ship) |
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| Coordinates: 46°49′N 71°13′W / 46.817°N 71.217°WCoordinates: 46°49′N 71°13′W / 46.817°N 71.217°W | |||
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| Province |
 Quebec
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| Region | Capitale-Nationale | ||
| Metropolitan community | Communauté métropolitaine de Québec | ||
| Agglomeration | Agglomeration of Quebec City | ||
| First settled | 11 October 1535, by Jacques Cartier | ||
| Founded | 3 July 1608, by Samuel de Champlain | ||
| Constituted | 1 January 2002 | ||
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| • Type | Quebec City Council | ||
| • Mayor | Régis Labeaume | ||
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| Area | |||
| • City | 484.10 km2 (186.91 sq mi) | ||
| • Land | 454.10 km2 (175.33 sq mi) | ||
| • Metro | 3,349.12 km2 (1,293.10 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 98 m (322 ft) | ||
| Population (2011) | |||
| • City | 516,622 (11th) | ||
| • Density | 1,137.7/km2 (2,947/sq mi) | ||
| • Metro | 765,706 (7th) | ||
| • Metro density | 228.6/km2 (592/sq mi) | ||
| • Pop 2006-2011 |
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| Time zone | EST (UTC−5) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) | ||
| Postal code(s) | G1A to G2N | ||
| Area code(s) | 418 and 581 | ||
| Website | www |
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Quebec City (French: Ville de Québec) (pronounced 
i/kwᵻˈbɛk/ or /kəˈbɛk/;French: Québec [kebɛk]), (officially Québec) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. In 2015 the city had a population estimate of 540,994, and the metropolitan area had a population of 806,400, making it Canada's seventh-largest metropolitan area and Quebec's second-largest city after Montreal, which is about 260 kilometres (160 mi) to the southwest, respectively.
According to the Government of Canada, the Government of Quebec, the Commission de toponymie du Québec, and the Geographical Names Board of Canada, the names of Canadian cities and towns have only one official form. Thus, Québec is officially spelled with an accented é in both Canadian English and French, although the accent is often not used in common English usage. In English, the city and the province are formally distinguished by the fact that the province does not have an accented é while the city does, while informally the form "Quebec City" is frequently (although unofficially) used to distinguish the city from the province.
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