Pohénégamook | |
Settlement Type: | City |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Eastern Quebec |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in eastern Quebec |
Coordinates: | 47.4667°N -82°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
Subdivision Name3: | Témiscouata |
Established Title1: | Constituted |
Established Date1: | November 3, 1973 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Benoît Morin |
Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
Leader Name1: | Rimouski-Neigette— Témiscouata—Les Basques |
Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
Leader Name2: | Rivière-du-Loup-Témiscouata |
Area Total Km2: | 349.40 |
Area Land Km2: | 339.99 |
Population Total: | 2481 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Density Km2: | 7.3 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
Population Blank1: | 3.9% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 1393 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Postal Code: | G0L 1J0 |
Area Code: | 418 and 581 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Pohénégamook, Quebec (pop. 2481) is a Canadian town on the Canada–United States border in Quebec's Témiscouata Regional County Municipality.
The town shares the border with Estcourt Station, Maine, the northernmost point in New England.
As of 2021, Pohénégamook had 2,481 people, down 3.9% from the last census in 2006.
The town is named after Lake Pohenegamook and is located on the lake's southern and western shores.
Pohénégamook was amalgamated with the formerly-independent communities of Saint-Pierre d'Estcourt, Saint-Éleuthère, Village-Blier and Saint-David-de-Sully on October 23, 1973.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Pohénégamook had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 339.99km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]
Parc de la Frontière,[2] located along the southern lakeshore of Lake Pohenegamook, straddles the U.S.-Canadian border. It features a historic marker[3] and gives visitors the experience of visiting a park in two countries.