| La Mitis | |
| Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
| 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: | Mont-Joli |
| Government Type: | Prefecture |
| Leader Title: | Prefect |
| Leader Name: | Michel Côté |
| Area Total Km2: | 2,538.80 |
| Area Land Km2: | 2,281.25 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 18,210 |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Density Km2: | 8.0 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2011–2016 |
| Population Blank1: | 3.9% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 9,692 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
La Mitis is a regional county municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region in eastern Quebec, Canada on the Gaspé peninsula. It is named for the Mitis River (The Mitis) which has its source in the region (at Lac Inférieur) and flows through the central part of the region before emptying into the Saint Lawrence River.
The county seat is in Mont-Joli.
There are 18 subdivisions within the RCM:
| Canada Census Mother Tongue – La Mitis Regional County Municipality, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 17,665 | 2.9% | 98.58% | 140 | 7.7% | 0.78% | 65 | 0.0% | 0.36% | 50 | 0.0% | 0.28% | ||||||||
| 18,185 | 1.6% | 98.67% | 130 | 25.7% | 0.71% | 65 | 44.4% | 0.35% | 50 | 58.3% | 0.27% | ||||||||
| 18,475 | 0.05% | 98.19% | 175 | 25.0% | 0.93% | 45 | 18.2% | 0.24% | 120 | 480.0% | 0.64% | ||||||||
| 18,485 | 4.4% | 98.82% | 140 | 3.7% | 0.75% | 55 | 15.4% | 0.29% | 25 | 44.4% | 0.13% | ||||||||
| 19,335 | n/a | 98.75% | 135 | n/a | 0.69% | 65 | n/a | 0.33% | 45 | n/a | 0.23% | ||||||||
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[2]