Mauricie

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Mauricie
Country Canada
province Quebec
Administrative headquarters Trois-Rivières
Residents 262,340 (2011)
surface 35,451.7 km²
Population density 7.4 inhabitants / km²
Location of the Mauricie region in Québec

Mauricie is an administrative region ( French région administrative ) in the south of the Canadian province of Québec .

It is further divided into three regional county municipalities (municipalités régionales de comté) and 49 municipalities, reserves and unincorporated areas. The administrative seat is in Trois-Rivières .

The population is 262,340 (2011), the land area 35,451.7 km², which corresponds to a population density of 7.4 inhabitants per km². 98.8% of the population speak French and 0.2% English as their main language.

In the north Mauricie borders on the North-du-Québec region , in the northeast on Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean , in the east on Capitale-Nationale , in the south on Center-du-Québec , in the west on Lanaudière and Laurentides , in the north-west Outaouais and Abitibi-Témiscamingue .

The region is named after the Saint-Maurice river .

structure

Regional County Councils (MRC):

Cities outside an MRC:

Municipalities outside an MRC:

Reserves outside an MRC:

literature

  • Richard Lalumière, Michel Thibault: Les forêts du Parc national de la Mauricie, au Québec , Les presses de l'Université Laval 1988.

Web links

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