| La Matanie | |
| Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
| Coordinates: | 48.85°N -84°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
| Established Title: | Effective |
| Established Date: | January 1, 1982 |
| Seat Type: | County seat |
| Seat: | Matane |
| Government Type: | Prefecture |
| Leader Title: | Prefect |
| Leader Name: | Pierre Thibodeau |
| Area Total Km2: | 3380.00 |
| Area Land Km2: | 3318.34 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 21,301 |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Density Km2: | 6.4 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2011-2016 |
| Population Blank1: | 2.2% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 11,948 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
La Matanie is a regional county municipality, located in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, in Canada. From January 1, 1982, to March 9, 2013, it was known as Matane.[2]
The county seat is the city of Matane.
There are 12 subdivisions within the RCM:
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - La Matanie Regional County Municipality, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 20,800 | 2.8% | 98.86% | 95 | 0.0% | 0.45% | 60 | 14.3% | 0.29% | 85 | 21.4% | 0.40% | ||||||||
| 21,405 | 0.6% | 98.91% | 95 | 24.0% | 0.44% | 70 | 50.0% | 0.32% | 70 | 64.1% | 0.32% | ||||||||
| 21,525 | 1.7% | 98.38% | 125 | 92.3% | 0.57% | 35 | 36.4% | 0.16% | 195 | 333.3% | 0.89% | ||||||||
| 21,900 | 5.5% | 99.25% | 65 | 43.5% | 0.29% | 55 | 37.5% | 0.25% | 45 | 80.0% | 0.20% | ||||||||
| 23,175 | n/a | 99.23% | 115 | n/a | 0.49% | 40 | n/a | 0.17% | 25 | n/a | 0.11% | ||||||||
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[3]