La Côte-de-Gaspé | |
Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
Coordinates: | 49.1667°N -119°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Quebec |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine |
Established Title: | Effective |
Established Date: | January 1, 1982 |
Seat Type: | County seat |
Seat: | Gaspé |
Government Type: | Prefecture |
Leader Title: | Prefect |
Leader Name: | François Roussy |
Area Land Km2: | 4088.39 |
Population Total: | 17,547 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Density Km2: | 4.3 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Change (2016-21) |
Population Blank1: | 2.5% |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
La Côte-de-Gaspé is a regional county municipality on the Gaspé peninsula in eastern Quebec, Canada, part of the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region. The seat is Gaspé.
The regional county has a land area of and its population was 17,547 inhabitants as of the 2021 Census. Its largest community is the city of Gaspé.
There are 7 subdivisions within the RCM:
Canada Census Mother Tongue - La Côte-de-Gaspé Regional County Municipality, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
14,965 | 5.6% | 88.8% | 1,600 | 7.8% | 9.5% | 185 | 5.7% | 1.1% | 105 | 75.0% | 0.6% | ||||||||
15,860 | 3.0% | 88.95% | 1,735 | 9.6% | 9.73% | 175 | 59.1% | 0.98% | 60 | 71.4% | 0.34% | ||||||||
15,395 | 5.2% | 87.30% | 1,920 | 4.1% | 10.89% | 110 | 18.5% | 0.62% | 210 | 281.8% | 1.19% | ||||||||
16,240 | 9.6% | 88.86% | 1,845 | 22.0% | 10.10% | 135 | 37.2% | 0.74% | 55 | 10.0% | 0.30% | ||||||||
17,955 | n/a | 87.22% | 2,365 | n/a | 11.49% | 215 | n/a | 1.04% | 50 | n/a | 0.24% |
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[1]