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Quebec City. / 46.81389°N 71.20806°W / 46.81389; -71.20806. 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 ...
An agglomeration, or urban agglomeration, is an administrative division of Quebec at the local level that may group together a number of municipalities which were abolished as independent entities on 1 January 2002 but reconstituted on 1 January 2006. Urban agglomerations have certain powers that would ordinarily be exercised by individual ...
The City Hall of Quebec City ( French: Hôtel de ville de Québec) is the seat of local government in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It was inaugurated on September 15, 1896 in the Old Quebec neighbourhood. The building slopes downward as it was built on a hill and was once home to the Jesuit College (Jesuit Barracks) from the 1730s to 1878.
The 2000–2006 municipal reorganization in Quebec resulted in large-scale amalgamation of smaller municipalities in Quebec into larger cities. [1] It was undertaken by one administration, but was modified and partially undone by its successor. The first phase involved many amalgamations from late 2000 until 2003, undertaken by the Parti ...
ville.quebec.qc.ca/. La Cité-Limoilou ( French pronunciation: [la site limwalu]) is the central borough of Quebec City, the oldest (in terms of architecture), and the most populous, comprising 21.85% of the city's total population. [ 2] As an administrative division, it is very new, having only been formed on November 1, 2009, from the former ...
Old Quebec ( French: Vieux-Québec) is a historic neighbourhood of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. Comprising the Upper Town ( French: Haute-Ville) and Lower Town ( French: Basse-Ville ), the area is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Administratively, Old Quebec is part of the Vieux-Québec–Cap-Blanc–colline Parlementaire district in the borough ...
This is the list of communities in Quebec that have the legal status of village municipalities (village, code=VL) as defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy. This does not include Cree villages (code=VC), Naskapi villages (code=VK), or Northern villages (Inuit, code=VN), which have a separate legal status.
The history of Quebec City extends back thousands of years, with its first inhabitants being the First Nations peoples of the region. The arrival of French explorers in the 16th century eventually led to the establishment of Quebec City, in present-day Quebec, Canada. The city is one of the oldest European settlements in North America, with the ...