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Quebec City ( / kwɪˈbɛk / ⓘ or / kəˈbɛk /; [ 11 ] French: Ville de Québec ), officially known as Québec ( French pronunciation: [kebɛk] ), [ 12 ] is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, [ 13 ] and the metropolitan area had a population of 839,311. [ 14 ]
Quebec has a number of regions that go by historical and traditional names. Often, they have similar but distinct French and English names. Abitibi; Lower Saint Lawrence (Bas-Saint-Laurent) Beauce (within Chaudière-Appalaches) Bois-Francs (within Centre-du-Québec) Charlevoix (eastern part of the Capitale-Nationale administrative region ...
The Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré ( French: Basilique Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré) is a basilica set along the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, 30 kilometres (19 mi) east of Quebec City, and one of the six national shrines of Canada. [ 2] It has been credited by the Catholic Church with many miracles of curing the sick and disabled.
Quebec French ( French: français québécois [fʁɑ̃sɛ kebekwa] ), also known as Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language spoken in Canada. It is the dominant language of the province of Quebec, used in everyday communication, in education, the media, and government. Maxime, a speaker of Québecois French ...
Quebec [a] (French: Québec ⓘ) [12] is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.It is the largest province by area [b] and the second-largest by population.. With an area of 1.5 million square kilometres (0.58 million square miles) and more than 12,000 km (7,500 mi) of borders, [13] [14] in North America, Quebec is located in Central Canada.
The culture of Quebec emerged over the last few hundred years, resulting predominantly from the shared history of the French -speaking North American majority in Quebec. Québécois culture, as a whole, constitutes all distinctive traits – spiritual, material, intellectual and affective – that characterize Québécois society. This term ...
A dynamic web page is a web page constructed at runtime (during software execution ), as opposed to a static web page, delivered as it is stored. A server-side dynamic web page is a web page whose construction is controlled by an application server processing server-side scripts. [ 1] In server-side scripting, parameters determine how the ...
The provincial GDP in 2021 was C$504,5 billion, [ 9] making Quebec the second largest economy in Canada after Ontario. The provincial debt-to-GDP ratio peaked at 50.7% in fiscal year 2012–2013, is now resting at 38.1 in 2022, [ 10] and is projected to decline to 34% in 2023–2024. [ 11]