Communauté métropolitaine de Québec

The Communauté métropolitaine de Québec (French pronunciation: [kɔmynote metʁɔpɔlitɛn də kebɛk], 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.

Communauté métropolitaine de Québec Quebec Metropolitan Community
Metropolitan area
Satellite image of the Communauté métropolitaine de Québec
Communauté métropolitaine de Québec Capital National
Coordinates: 46°49′N 71°13′W
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Area [1]
• Total	3,499.46 km2 (1,351.15 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]
• Total	839,311
• Density	239.8/km2 (621/sq mi)
GDP
• Quebec CMA	CA$47.9 billion (2020)[3]
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Postal code prefixes	G
Area code(s)	418, 581

Predecessor

Main article: Communauté urbaine de Québec

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.

Municipalities in the Quebec Metropolitan Community and Quebec Census Metropolitan Area (CMA)^[9][10]

Regional county municipality or urban agglomeration(where applicable)	In Metropolitan Community	In CMA only
Urban agglomeration of Quebec City	Quebec City[a 1] L'Ancienne-Lorette Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures	Notre-Dame-des-Anges[a 2] Wendake[a 3]
Lévis (Equivalent territory)[a 4]
Bellechasse Regional County Municipality		Beaumont Saint-Henri
La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality	Beaupré[a 5] Boischatel Château-Richer L'Ange-Gardien Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré[a 5] Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges[a 5] Saint-Joachim[a 5] Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague-du-Cap-Tourmente[a 5] Saint-Tite-des-Caps[a 5]
L'Île-d'Orléans Regional County Municipality	Sainte-Famille-de-l'Île-d'Orléans Saint-François-de-l'Île-d'Orléans Saint-Jean-de-l'Île-d'Orléans Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans Sainte-Pétronille Saint-Pierre-de-l'Île-d'Orléans
La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality	Fossambault-sur-le-Lac Lac-Beauport Lac-Delage Lac-Saint-Joseph Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier Shannon Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury
La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality		Saint-Lambert-de-Lauzon
Lotbinière Regional County Municipality		Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly Saint-Apollinaire
Portneuf Regional County Municipality		Neuville

1. subdivided into the boroughs of Beauport, Charlesbourg, La Cité-Limoilou, La Haute-Saint-Charles, Les Rivières and Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge
2. enclave within the borough of La Cité-Limoilou, not part of the urban agglomeration
3. Huron-Wendat reserve, an enclave within the borough of La Haute-Saint-Charles, not part of the urban agglomeration
4. subdivided into the boroughs of Desjardins, Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Ouest and Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière-Est
5. not part of the CMA

Gallery

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  Québec
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  Lévis
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  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%