La Mitis
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| La Mitis | |
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| Regional county municipality | |
| Location of La Mitis | |
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| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  Quebec |
| Region | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
| Effective | January 1, 1982 |
| County seat | Mont-Joli |
| Government[2] | |
| • Type | Prefecture |
| • Prefect | Michel Côté |
| Area[2][3] | |
| • Total | 2,538.80 km2 (980.24 sq mi) |
| • Land | 2,279.22 km2 (880.01 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[3] | |
| • Total | 18,942 |
| • Density | 8.3/km2 (21/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2006-2011 |  2.2% |
| • Dwellings | 9,471 |
| Time zone | EST (UTC−5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) |
| Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
| Website | www |
La Mitis is a regional county municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region in eastern Quebec, Canada on the Gaspé peninsula. It is named for the Mitis River (The Mitis) which has its source in the region (at Lac Inférieur) and flows through the central part of the region before emptying into the Saint Lawrence River.
The county seat is in Mont-Joli.
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Subdivisions
There are 18 subdivisions within the RCM:[2]
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Demographics
Population
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Language
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French
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English
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French & English
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| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | |||||
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2011
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18,430
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18,185 | 1.6% |
98.67% | 130 | 25.7% |
0.71% | 65 |  44.4% |
0.35% | 50 | 58.3% |
0.27% | |||||
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2006
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18,815
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18,475 | 0.05% |
98.19% | 175 | 25.0% |
0.93% | 45 | 18.2% |
0.24% | 120 | 480.0% |
0.64% | |||||
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2001
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18,705
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18,485 | 4.4% |
98.82% | 140 | 3.7% |
0.75% | 55 | 15.4% |
0.29% | 25 | 44.4% |
0.13% | |||||
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1996
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19,580
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19,335 | n/a | 98.75% | 135 | n/a | 0.69% | 65 | n/a | 0.33% | 45 | n/a | 0.23% | |||||
Transportation
Access Routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[7]
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See also
- List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec
- Seignory of Lac-Mitis
- Mitis Seignory
References
- ↑ Reference number 141090 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (French)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Geographic code 090 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (French)
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- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census
- ↑ Official Transport Quebec Road Map
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