Greater Montreal Area

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Greater Montreal Area
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settlement_type = Inner Ring


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subdivision_name1 = flagicon|Quebec Quebec
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population_total = 3635571
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timezone = EST
utc_offset = -5
timezone_DST = EDT
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postal_code_type = Postal code prefixes
postal_code = H, J
area_code = 438, 450, 514

The Greater Montreal Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the Canadian province of Quebec. As of 2006, Statistics Canada identifies Montreal's Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) (land area 4,259 km²) as Canada's second most populous with a population of 3,635,571 cite web| url=http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/popdwell/Table.cfm?T=201&S=3&O=D&RPP=150| title=Population and dwelling counts, for census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations, 2006 and 2001 censuses - 100% data| date=2007-03-13| work=Statistics Canada, 2006 Census of Population| accessdate=2007-03-13] . A slightly smaller area of 3,838 km² is governed by the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (CMM) (English: "Montreal Metropolitan Community", a translation rarely used). This level of government is headed by a president (currently City of Montreal mayor Gérald Tremblay). The CMM has a land area and an estimated population of 3,493,485Fact|date=August 2007.

Largest cities

Inner Ring

The inner ring is composed of densely populated municipalities located in close proximity to downtown Montreal. It includes the entire Island of Montreal, Laval, and the Urban Agglomeration of Longueuil.

=Island of Montreal=

*Baie-d'Urfé
*Beaconsfield
*Côte-Saint-Luc
*Dollard-des-Ormeaux
*Dorval
*Hampstead
*Kirkland
*L'Île-Dorval
*Montreal
** "Borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville"
** "Borough of Anjou"
** "Borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce"
** "Borough of L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève"
** "Borough of LaSalle"
** "Borough of Lachine"
** "Borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal"
** "Borough of Le Sud-Ouest"
** "Borough of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve"
** "Borough of Montréal-Nord"
** "Borough of Outremont"
** "Borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro"
** "Borough of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles"
** "Borough of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie"
** "Borough of Saint-Laurent"
** "Borough of Saint-Léonard"
** "Borough of Verdun"
** "Borough of Ville-Marie"
** "Borough of Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension"
*Montreal Est
*Montreal West
*Mount Royal
*Pointe-Claire
*Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue
*Senneville
*Westmount

Urban Agglomeration of Longueuil

*Boucherville
*Brossard
*Longueuil
**"Borough of Greenfield Park"
**"Borough of Saint-Hubert
**"Borough of Vieux-Longueuil"
*Saint-Lambert
*Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville

Île Jésus

*Laval
**"Neighbourhood of Auteuil"
**"Neighbourhood of Chomedey"
**"Neighbourhood of Duvernay"
**"Neighbourhood of Fabreville"
**"Neighbourhood of Îles Laval"
**"Neighbourhood of Laval-Ouest"
**"Neighbourhood of Laval-des-Rapides"
**"Neighbourhood of Laval-sur-le-Lac"
**"Neighbourhood of Pont-Viau"
**"Neighbourhood of Saint-François"
**"Neighbourhood of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul"
**"Neighbourhood of Sainte-Dorothée"
**"Neighbourhood of Sainte-Rose"
**"Neighbourhood of Vimont"

Off-island suburbs

The outer ring is composed of low-density municipalities located on the fringe of Metropolitan Montreal. Most of these cities and towns are semi-rural. Specifically, the term "off-island suburbs" refers to those suburbs that are located on the North Shore of the Mille-Îles River, those on the South Shore that were never included in the megacity of Longueuil, and those on the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Peninsula. Communities in that area are also informally referred to as "the 450", after the telephone area code that serves the region since 1998.

Due to their proximity to Montreal's downtown core, some suburbs on the South Shore (Longueuil, Brossard, Saint-Lambert, and Boucherville) are usually not included in the "off-island suburbs" even though they are on the mainland.

Montérégie

*Beauharnois, Quebec
*Beloeil, Quebec
*Calixa-Lavallée, Quebec
*Candiac, Quebec
*Carignan, Quebec
*Chambly, Quebec
*Charlemagne, Quebec
*Châteauguay, Quebec
*Contrecoeur, Quebec
*Delson, Quebec
*Hudson, Quebec
*Kahnawake
*La Prairie, Quebec
*Léry, Quebec
*Les Cèdres, Quebec
*L'Île-Cadieux, Quebec
*L'Île-Perrot
*McMasterville, Quebec
*Mercier, Quebec
*Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec
*Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot, Quebec
*Otterburn Park, Quebec
*Pincourt, Quebec
*Pointe-des-Cascades, Quebec
*Richelieu, Quebec
*Rigaud, Quebec
*Saint-Amable, Quebec
*Saint-Basile-le-Grand, Quebec
*Sainte-Catherine, Quebec
*Saint-Constant, Quebec
*Saint-Isidore, Quebec
*Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Quebec
*Sainte-Julie, Quebec
*Saint-Lazare, Quebec
*Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, Quebec
*Saint-Mathieu, Quebec
*Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil, Quebec
*Saint-Philippe, Quebec
*Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec
*Terrasse-Vaudreuil, Quebec
*Varennes, Quebec
*Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec
*Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac, Quebec
*Verchères, Quebec

Laurentians

*Blainville, Quebec
*Bois-des-Filion, Quebec
*Boisbriand, Quebec
*Deux-Montagnes, Quebec
*Lorraine, Quebec
*Mirabel, Quebec
*Oka, Quebec
*Pointe-Calumet, Quebec
*Rosemère, Quebec
*Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec
*Saint-Eustache, Quebec
*Saint-Jérôme
*Saint-Joseph-du-Lac, Quebec
*Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, Quebec
*Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec

Lanaudière

*Charlemagne, Quebec
*L'Assomption, Quebec
*Mascouche, Quebec
*Repentigny, Quebec
*Saint-Sulpice, Quebec
*Terrebonne, Quebec

Demographics

References

External links

* [http://www.cmm.qc.ca/index.php?id=309 Metropolitan Community of Montreal website]
* [http://www.restomontreal.ca/ Greater Montreal Area Restaurants]
* [http://www.mamr.gouv.qc.ca/publications/cartotheque/RMR_Mun.pdf Greater Montreal Area map] in .pdf