Quebec City Area

Québec City Metropolitan Area
Census Metropolitan Area
From top, left to right: Quebec City from the St. Lawrence River, the Ramparts of Quebec City, waterfront in Old Quebec, skyscrapers in Vieux-Québec, Parliament Building, Château Frontenac, Pierre Laporte Bridge
Interactive Map of Québec City CMA   Quebec City / Ville de Québec   Levis / Lévis   Québec City, Que. CMA
Country	Canada
Province	Québec
GDP
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)

The Quebec City Area (or Région de Québec in French) is the metropolitan area surrounding Quebec City, in the Canadian province of Quebec. It consists of two administrative regions: Capitale-Nationale and Chaudière-Appalaches.

Population

The Quebec City Area had a population of 682,757 in the 2001 Canadian census.[1] The Quebec City Area had a population of 715,515 in the 2006 Canadian census.[2] The Quebec-Levis area had a population of 1,109,184 in 2006. In 2011, the Quebec City area, consisting of the Capitale Nationale and Chaudière-Appalaches census divisions, had a population of 1,111,245 [3]

Members

Capitale-Nationale

• Main city: Quebec City

Baie-Sainte-Catherine Baie-Saint-Paul Beaupré Boischatel Cap-Santé Château-Richer Clermont Deschambault-Grondines Donnacona Fossambault-sur-le-Lac Île d'Orléans ** Lac-Beauport Lac-Delage Lac-Saint-Joseph Lac-Sergent La Malbaie L'Ancienne-Lorette

L'Ange-Gardien Les Éboulements L'Isle-aux-Coudres Neuville Notre-Dame-des-Monts Petite-Rivière-Saint-François Pont-Rouge Portneuf Rivière-à-Pierre Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs Saint-Alban Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures Saint-Basile Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier Saint-Casimir

Sainte-Christine-d'Auvergne Saint-Ferréol-les-Neiges Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier Saint-Hilarion Saint-Irénée Saint-Joachim Saint-Léonard-de-Portneuf Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague-du-Cap-Tourmente Saint-Marc-des-Carrières Saint-Raymond Saint-Siméon Saint-Tite-des-Caps Saint-Ubalde Saint-Urbain Shannon Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury Wendake *

* Wendake is an Indian reserve enclaved within Quebec City.
** L'Île d'Orléans contains six parishes.

Chaudières-Appalaches

• Main city: Lévis

MRC de Beauce-Sartignan MRC de Bellechasse MRC de Les Appalaches

MRC de La Nouvelle-Beauce MRC de Les Etchemins MRC de L'Islet

MRC de Lotbinière MRC de Montmagny MRC de Robert-Cliche

Demographics

Mother tongue (2011)

Language	Quebec CMA	Quebec	Canada
French	95.6%	79.7%	22.0%
English	1.9%	9.6%	58.6%
Spanish	0.8%	1.8%	1.3%
Arabic	0.5%	2.1%	1.1%
Portuguese	0.2%	0.5%	0.7%
Vietnamese	0.1%	0.4%	0.5%
Unspecified Chinese	0.1%	0.6%	1.3%
Italian	0.1%	1.6%	1.3%
Romanian	0.1%	0.4%	0.3%
Bosnian	0.1%	<0.1%	<0.1%
German	0.1%	0.2%	1.3%
Nepali	0.1%	<0.1%	<0.1%
Russian	0.1%	0.3%	0.5%
Swahili	0.1%	<0.1%	<0.1%
Creole	0.1%	0.8%	0.2%
Cambodian	0.1%	0.1%	<0.1%
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Montagnais/Innu	0.04%	0.11%	0.03%