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Lotbinière
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Coordinates: 46°31′N 71°36′W / 46.517°N 71.600°W / 46.517; -71.600[1] | |
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Region | Chaudière-Appalaches |
Effective | January 1, 1982 |
County seat | Sainte-Croix |
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• Type | Prefecture |
• Prefect | Daniel Turcotte |
Area | |
• Total | 1,687.00 km2 (651.35 sq mi) |
• Land | 1,662.27 km2 (641.81 sq mi) |
Population
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• Total | 34 553 |
• Density | 19.1/km2 (49/sq mi) |
• Change 2011-2016 | ![]() |
• Dwellings | 14,642 |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
Website | www |
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.[3] Its seat is in Sainte-Croix.
There are 18 subdivisions within the RCM:[2]
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Year | Pop. | ±% |
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2006 | 27,425 | — |
2011 | 29,617 | +8.0% |
2016 | 31,741 | +7.2% |
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Mother tongue from 2016 Canadian Census[3]
Language | Population | Pct (%) |
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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:[5]
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