Abitibi | |
Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
Coordinates: | 48.5667°N -78°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Abitibi-Témiscamingue |
Established Title: | Effective |
Established Date: | January 1, 1983 |
Seat Type: | County seat |
Seat: | Amos |
Government Type: | Prefecture |
Leader Title: | Prefect |
Leader Name: | Jacques Riopel |
Area Total Km2: | 7862.70 |
Area Land Km2: | 7677.01 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 24,639 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Density Km2: | 3.2 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2011-2016 |
Population Blank1: | 1.2% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 11,374 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Area Code: | 819 |
Abitibi Regional County Municipality is a regional county municipality in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec. The seat is Amos.
There are 18 subdivisions within the RCM:
Canada Census Mother Tongue - Abitibi Regional County Municipality, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
23,690 | 1.4% | 97.09% | 235 | 9.3% | 0.96% | 70 | 0% | 0.29% | 405 | 8.0% | 1.66% | ||||||||
23,360 | 0.8% | 97.25% | 215 | 37.7% | 0.90% | 70 | 366.7% | 0.29% | 375 | 2.6% | 1.56% | ||||||||
23,170 | 1.9% | 96.88% | 345 | 53.3% | 1.44% | 15 | 75.0% | 0.07% | 385 | 4.1% | 1.61% | ||||||||
23,620 | 3.3% | 97.30% | 225 | 8.2% | 0.93% | 60 | 20.0% | 0.25% | 370 | 15.6% | 1.52% | ||||||||
24,435 | n/a | 97.54% | 245 | n/a | 0.98% | 50 | n/a | 0.20% | 320 | n/a | 1.28% |
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[2]