Greater Montreal

Greater Montreal (French: Grand Montréal) is the maist populous metropolitan area in Quebec an the seicont maist populous in Canadae after the Greater Toronto metropolitan area. As o 2009, Statistics Canada identifies Montreal's Census Metropolitan Aurie (CMA). The CMA is 4,258.31 square kilometre (1,644.14 sq mi) lairge an haes a population of 3,824,221 as of 2011. A smawer area of 3,838 square kilometre (1,482 sq mi) is governed bi the Montreal Metropolitan Community (MMC) (French: Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal, CMM). This level of govrenment is heidit bi a preses (currently Montreal mayor Gérald Tremblay). The inner ring is componed o densely populatit municipalities locatit in close proximity tae Dountoun Montreal. It includes the entire Island o Montreal, Laval, an the Urban Agglomeration o Longueuil. The ooter ring is componed o law-densitie municipalities locatit on the fringe o Metropolitan Montreal. Maist o thir ceeties an touns are semi-rural. Specifically, the term aff-island suburbs (banlieues hors de l'île) refers tae those suburbs that are locatit on the North Shore o the Mille-Îles River, those on the South Shore that war never included in the megacity of Longueuil, an those on the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Peninsula. Commonties in that aurie are informally referred tae as the 450 an aw, efter the telephone aurie code that haes servit the region syne 1998. Due tae thair proximity tae Montreal's dountoun core, some suburbs on the South Shore (Longueuil, Brossard, Saint-Lambert, an Boucherville) are uisually no includit in the aff-island suburbs even tho thay are on the mainland. Largest cities Ceeties an touns Island of Montreal Laval Laval Montérégie La Vallée-du-Richelieu Beloeil Carignan Chambly McMasterville Mont-Saint-Hilaire Otterburn Park Saint-Basile-le-Grand Saint-Jean-Baptiste Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil Marguerite-D'Youville Calixa-Lavallée Contrecœur Saint-Amable Sainte-Julie Varennes Verchères Pierre-De Saurel Sorel-Tracy Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel Saint-Ours Saint-Aimé Saint-David Saint-Robert Saint-Roch-de-Richelieu Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel Sainte Maskoutains Saint-Hyacinthe Saint-Pie La Présentation Saint-Barnabé-Sud Saint-Bernard-de-Michaudville Saint-Damase Saint-Dominique Saint-Hugues Saint-Jude Saint-Liboire Saint-Louis Saint-Marcel-de-Richelieu Saint-Simon Saint-Valérien-de-Milton Sainte-Hélène-de-Bagot Roussillon Candiac Châteauguay Delson La Prairie Léry Mercier Sainte-Catherine Saint-Constant Saint-Isidore Saint-Mathieu Saint-Philippe Rouville Richelieu Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu Urban agglomeration o Longueuil Boucherville Brossard Longueuil (includes 3 burghs) Saint-Lambert Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville Vaudreuil-Soulanges Coteau-du-Lac Hudson Les Cèdres Les Coteaux L'Île-Cadieux L'Île-Perrot Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot Pincourt Pointe-des-Cascades Rigaud Rivière-Beaudette Saint-Zotique Saint-Lazare Terrasse-Vaudreuil Vaudreuil-Dorion Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac Laurentides Blainville Bois-des-Filion Boisbriand Deux-Montagnes Lorraine Mirabel Oka Pointe-Calumet Rosemère Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines Saint-Eustache Saint-Joseph-du-Lac Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac Sainte-Thérèse Lanaudière Charlemagne L'Assomption Mascouche Repentigny Saint-Sulpice Terrebonne Demographics References Freemit airtins Metropolitan Community of Montreal wabsteid Greater Montreal Area Restaurants (in French) Greater Montreal Area map in .pdf