| Les Basques | |
| Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
| Coordinates: | 48.1°N -73°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
| Established Title: | Effective |
| Established Date: | April 1, 1981 |
| Seat Type: | County seat |
| Seat: | Trois-Pistoles |
| Government Type: | Prefecture |
| Leader Title: | Prefect |
| Leader Name: | Bertin Denis |
| Area Total Km2: | 1,130.70 |
| Area Land Km2: | 1,121.82 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 8,694 |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Density Km2: | 7.7 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2011-2016 |
| Population Blank1: | 4.9% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 5,185 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −05:00 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −04:00 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
Les Basques (the Basques) is a regional county municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region in eastern Quebec, Canada. It is located on the south bank of the Saint Lawrence River halfway between Rimouski and Rivière-du-Loup.
The county seat is in Trois-Pistoles.
There are 12 subdivisions within the RCM:
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Les Basques Regional County Municipality, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 8,530 | 5.0% | 99.42% | 30 | 40.0% | 0.35% | 10 | 50.0% | 0.12% | 10 | 100% | 0.12% | ||||||||
| 8,980 | 0.1% | 99.17% | 50 | 233.3% | 0.55% | 20 | n/a% | 0.22% | 5 | 96.4% | 0.06% | ||||||||
| 8,970 | 6.0% | 98.30% | 15 | 40.0% | 0.17% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | 140 | 1300.0% | 1.53% | ||||||||
| 9,545 | 2.7% | 99.64% | 25 | 73.7% | 0.26% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.00% | 10 | n/a% | 0.10% | ||||||||
| 9,805 | n/a | 98.84% | 95 | n/a | 0.96% | 20 | n/a | 0.20% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | ||||||||
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[2]