Roussillon | |
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Regional county municipality | |
Location in province of Quebec. |
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Coordinates: 45°22′N 73°34′W / 45.367°N 73.567°WCoordinates: 45°22′N 73°34′W / 45.367°N 73.567°W | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Montérégie |
Effective | January 1, 1982 |
Named for | Régiment Royal Roussillon |
County seat | Saint-Constant |
Government | |
• Type | Prefecture |
• Prefect | Nathalie Simon |
Area | |
• Total | 403.60 km2 (155.83 sq mi) |
• Land | 423.24 km2 (163.41 sq mi) |
There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources |
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Population (2011) | |
• Total | 162,187 |
• Density | 383.2/km2 (992/sq mi) |
• Pop 2006–2011 | 8.1% |
Population excludes incompletely enumerated First Nations reserves | |
Time zone | EST (UTC−5) |
• Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) |
Area code(s) | 450 and 579 |
Website | www |
Roussillon is a regional county municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is in Saint-Constant, Quebec. The region's population was 162,187 as of the Canada 2011 Census.
There are 11 subdivisions and one native reserve within the RCM:
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border: