| Lotbinière | |
| Settlement Type: | Regional county municipality |
| Coordinates: | 46.5167°N -107°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Chaudière-Appalaches |
| Established Title: | Effective |
| Established Date: | January 1, 1982 |
| Seat Type: | County seat |
| Seat: | Sainte-Croix |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] |
| Government Type: | Prefecture |
| Leader Title: | Prefect |
| Leader Name: | Daniel Turcotte |
| Area Total Km2: | 1,687.00 |
| Area Land Km2: | 1,662.27 |
| Population Footnotes: | [2] |
| Population Total: | 34 553 |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Density Km2: | 19.1 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2011-2016 |
| Population Blank1: | 7.2% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 14,642 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
Lotbinière is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec. It is an almost exclusively rural RCM, with no village with a population above 4,000. As of the 2016 Canadian Census, the RCM had a population of 31,741.[2] Its seat is in Sainte-Croix.
There are 18 subdivisions within the RCM:[1]
Mother tongue from 2016 Canadian Census[2]
| Language | Population | Pct (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| French only | 30,845 | 98.2% | |
| English only | 230 | 0.7% | |
| Both English and French | 110 | 0.3% | |
| Other languages | 240 | 0.8% |
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:[3]