Communauté métropolitaine de Québec Quebec Metropolitan Community | |
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 Satellite image of the Communauté métropolitaine de Québec | |
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  Communauté métropolitaine de Québec Capital National | |
| Coordinates:46°49′N71°13′W / 46.817°N 71.217°W /46.817; -71.217 | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  Quebec |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,499.46 km2 (1,351.15 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | |
• Total | 839,311 |
| • Density | 239.8/km2 (621/sq mi) |
| GDP | |
| • QuebecCMA | CA$47.9 billion (2020)[3] |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| Postal code prefixes | |
| Area code(s) | 418, 581 |
TheCommunauté métropolitaine de Québec (French pronunciation:[kɔmynotemetʁɔpɔlitɛndəkebɛk],CMQ), orQuebec Metropolitan Community, is anadministrative division of the province ofQuebec, comprising themetropolitan area ofQuebec City andLévis. The CMQ is one of the twometropolitan communities of Quebec.
Effective January 1, 1970, theQuébec Urban Community (French:Communauté urbaine de Québec) ("CUQ") was established,[4] which governed the area surrounding Quebec City on the north shore of theSt. Lawrence River. Together with the CUQ, the Québec Urban Community Transit Commission (French:Commission de transport de la Communauté urbaine de Québec) ("CTCUQ") and the Greater Québec Water Purification Board (French:Bureau d'assainissement des eaux du Québec Métropolitain) ("BAEQM") were also established. Each of the three covered different groups of municipalities:
| Historical county | Municipality | CUQ[5] | CTCUQ[6] | BAEQM[7] |
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| Quebec County | Town of L'Ancienne-Lorette |  Y | Y | Y |
| Beauport | Y | Y | Y | |
| Bélair | Y | Y | ||
| Charlesbourg | Y | Y | Y | |
| Charlesbourg-Est | Y | Y | Y | |
| Charlesbourg-Ouest | Y | Y | Y | |
| Courville | Y | Y | Y | |
| Duberger | Y | Y | Y | |
| Giffard | Y | Y | Y | |
| Lac-Saint-Charles | Y | Y | Y | |
| Parish of L'Ancienne-Lorette | Y | Y | Y | |
| Loretteville | Y | Y | Y | |
| Montmorency | Y | Y | Y | |
| Neufchâtel | Y | Y | Y | |
| Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides | Y | Y | Y | |
| Orsainville | Y | Y | Y | |
| Quebec | Y | Y | Y | |
| Saint-Dunstan-du-Lac-Beauport | Y | |||
| Sainte-Foy | Y | Y | Y | |
| Saint-Émile | Y | Y | Y | |
| Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux | Y | Y | Y | |
| Saint-Félix-du-Cap-Rouge | Y | Y | ||
| Sillery | Y | Y | ||
| Val-St-Michel | Y | Y | ||
| Vanier | Y | Y | Y | |
| Villeneuve | Y | Y | Y | |
| Portneuf County | Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures | Y | ||
| Montmorency No 1 County | Saint-Jean-de-Boischatel | Y |
The CUQ was replaced by the CMQ on January 1, 2002.[8] The CMQ exercised jurisdiction over a wider geographical area.
Quebec was amalgamated with the cities ofBeauport,Cap-Rouge,Charlesbourg,L'Ancienne-Lorette,Lac-Saint-Charles,Loretteville,Saint-Émile,Sainte-Foy,Sillery,Val-Bélair,Vanier andSaint-Augustin-de-Desmaures. In the 2006 demerger, L'Ancienne-Lorette and Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures regained separate status.
Lévis was amalgamated withCharny,Saint-Jean-Chrysostome,Saint-Nicolas,Saint-Rédempteur,Saint-Romuald,Pintendre,Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon,Sainte-Hélène-de-Breakeyville andSaint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-de-Lévy.
| Regional county municipality orurban agglomeration(where applicable) | In Metropolitan Community | In CMA only |
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| Urban agglomeration of Quebec City | ||
| Lévis (Equivalent territory)[a 4] | ||
| Bellechasse Regional County Municipality | ||
| La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality | ||
| L'Île-d'Orléans Regional County Municipality | ||
| La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality | ||
| La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality | ||
| Lotbinière Regional County Municipality | ||
| Portneuf Regional County Municipality | ||
| Canada Census Mother Tongue – Quebec city, Quebec[11] | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | French | English | French & English | Other | |||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | |||||
2016 | 800,296 | 741,010 |  3.24%% | 92.62% | 10,965 | 1.06% | 1.41% | 3,775 | 14.56% | 0.49% | 29,900 | 35.41% | 5.04% | |||||
2011 | 765,706 | 717,770 | 6.94%% | 93,74% | 10,850 | 5.85% | 1.42% | 3,295 | 55.06% | 0.43% | 22,080 | 6.87% | 2.88% | |||||
2006 | 704,185 | 671,145 | 3.59% | 95.31% | 10,250 | 5.13% | 1.46% | 2,125 |  21.73% | 0.3% | 20,660 | 77.18% | 2.93% | |||||
2001 | 673,100 | 647,920 | 1.7% | 96,14% | 9,750 | 18.31% | 1.44% | 2,715 | 6.6% | 0.40% | 11,665 | 5.19% | 1.73% | |||||
1996 | 671,889 | 637,150 | n/a | 94,83% | 11,935 | n/a | 1.77% | 2,545 | n/a | 0.37% | 11,080 | n/a | 1.64% | |||||
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Great Lakes megalopolis as defined by theRPA | ||
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