| Brome-Missisquoi | |
| Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
| Coordinates: | 45.1333°N -120°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Estrie |
| Established Title: | Effective |
| Established Date: | January 1, 2010 |
| Seat Type: | County seat |
| Seat: | Cowansville |
| Government Type: | Prefecture |
| Leader Title: | Prefect |
| Leader Name: | Arthur Fauteux |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 1685.90 |
| Area Land Km2: | 1650.20 |
| Population Total: | 64,786 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 39.3 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 11.1% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 34,331 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
Brome-Missisquoi (pronounced as /fr/) is a regional county municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. It lies in the Eastern Townships area. The seat is Cowansville.In 2021, it was transferred to the Estrie region from Montérégie.
In Parliament it is covered by the Brome—Missisquoi federal electoral district.
In the 1980s, the RCM was formed from municipalities of historic Brome and Missisquoi counties. On January 1, 2010, the city of Bromont moved from La Haute-Yamaska Regional County Municipality to Brome-Missisquoi.[2]
There are 21 subdivisions within the RCM:[3]
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| Canada Census mother tongue - Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 50,310 | 12.2% | 79.04% | 9,885 | 0.97% | 15.55% | 1,585 | 82.18% | 2.49% | 1,490 | 12.03% | 2.34% | ||||||||
| 44,820 | 71.2% | 78.69% | 9,790 | 4.4% | 17.02% | 870 | 3.57% | 1.53% | 1,330 | 5.5% | 2.33% | ||||||||
| 42,240 | 25.9% | 77.38% | 10,250 | 4.2% | 18.78% | 840 | 18.3% | 1.54% | 1,260 | 2.7% | 2.31% | ||||||||
| 33,560 | 1.8% | 73.92% | 9,835 | 2.8% | 21.66% | 710 | 4.7% | 1.56% | 1,295 | 30.8% | 2.85% | ||||||||
| 32,975 | 2.7% | 73.56% | 10,120 | 6.1% | 22.57% | 745 | 4.9% | 1.66% | 990 | 11.2% | 2.21% | ||||||||
| 32,105 | n/a | 72.17% | 10,780 | n/a | 24.23% | 710 | n/a | 1.60% | 890 | n/a | 2.00% | ||||||||
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[5]