| Les Maskoutains | |
| Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
| Coordinates: | 45.6167°N -129°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Montérégie |
| Established Title: | Effective |
| Established Date: | January 1, 1982 |
| Seat Type: | County seat |
| Seat: | Saint-Hyacinthe |
| Government Type: | Prefecture |
| Leader Title: | Prefect |
| Leader Name: | Mme Francine Morin |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 1313.90 |
| Area Land Km2: | 1302.90 |
| Population Total: | 87,099 |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Density Km2: | 66.9 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2011-2016 |
| Population Blank1: | 3.4% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 40,244 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
Les Maskoutains is a regional county municipality in the Montérégie region in southwestern Quebec, Canada. Its seat is in Saint-Hyacinthe.
The name comes from Algonquin word maskutew meaning "bear plain" in plular.
There are 17 subdivisions within the RCM:
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 81,730 | 2.7% | 95.0% | 665 | 3.1% | 0.8% | 330 | 8.2% | 0.4% | 3,285 | 59.1% | 2.50% | ||||||||
| 79,610 | 4.2% | 96.35% | 645 | 16.2% | 0.78% | 305 | 69.4% | 0.37% | 2,065 | 16.7% | 2.50% | ||||||||
| 76,425 | 1.4% | 96.83% | 555 | 2.8% | 0.70% | 180 | 12.2% | 0.23% | 1,770 | 100.0% | 2.24% | ||||||||
| 75,395 | 0.4% | 97.88% | 540 | 28.9% | 0.70% | 205 | 20.6% | 0.27% | 885 | 22.9% | 1.15% | ||||||||
| 75,735 | n/a | 97.87% | 760 | n/a | 0.98% | 170 | n/a | 0.22% | 720 | n/a | 0.93% | ||||||||
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[2]