Québec Metropolitan Community Communauté métropolitaine de Québec (French)
Metropolitan area
Satellite image of the Communauté métropolitaine de Québec
Québec Metropolitan Community Capital National
Coordinates: 46°49′N 71°13′W / 46.817°N 71.217°W / 46.817; -71.217
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Area [1]
• Total	3,349.12 km2 (1,293.10 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[2]
• Total	800,296
• Density	234.8/km2 (608/sq mi)
Gross Metropolitan Product
• Quebec CMA	CA$47.9 billion (2020) · 7th[3]
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Postal code prefixes	G
Area code(s)	418, 581

The Communauté métropolitaine de Québec (CMQ), or Quebec Metropolitan Community, is an administrative division of the province of Quebec, comprising the metropolitan area of Quebec City and Lévis. The CMQ is one of the two metropolitan communities of Quebec.

Predecessor

Effective January 1, 1970, the Québec Urban Community (French: Communauté urbaine de Québec) ("CUQ") was established,^[4] which governed the area surrounding Quebec City on the north shore of the St. 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:

Québec area municipalities served by new agencies (1970)

Historical county	Municipality	CUQ[5]	CTCUQ[6]	BAEQM[7]
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

Formation

Boundaries of constituent municipalities of the Communauté urbaine de Québec in 2001, with overlay of Quebec city borough boundaries in 2012

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 of Beauport, Cap-Rouge, Charlesbourg, L'Ancienne-Lorette, Lac-Saint-Charles, Loretteville, Saint-Émile, Sainte-Foy, Sillery, Val-Bélair, Vanier and Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures. In the 2006 demerger, L'Ancienne-Lorette and Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures regained separate status.

Lévis was amalgamated with Charny, Saint-Jean-Chrysostome, Saint-Nicolas, Saint-Rédempteur, Saint-Romuald, Pintendre, Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon, Sainte-Hélène-de-Breakeyville and Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-de-Lévy.

Gallery

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  Québec
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  Lévis
• 
  Boroughs of Quebec City prior to October 31, 2009.
• 
  Boroughs of Quebec City, effective November 1, 2009.

Canada Census Mother Tongue – Quebec city, Quebec[11]
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%

References

External links

• (in French) Communauté métropolitaine de Québec website
• Quebec City Guide - Télégraphe de Québec