Dictionary, Census of Population, 2021
Regional county municipality (RCM)

Release date: February 9, 2022
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Definition

Legal and geographic regional county municipality

A regional county municipality (RCM) is a consolidated territory of municipalities and, in some cases, unorganized territories, governed by a law of general application (Geographical Names Board, 2016). In the geographic coding system, the legal RCM code is used to designate legally constituted RCMs, which cover only part of the territory in Quebec. It also distinguishes them from geographic RCMs, which are designated only for statistical purposes to ensure full territorial coverage in Quebec. Changes to the legal RCMs are announced in the Gazette officielle du Québec.

Geographic RCMs include legal RCMs and territories equivalent to an RCM, as well as Indigenous communities and northern villages on the perimeter of an RCM or that constitute equivalent territories.

The geographic RCM represents a geographic breakdown established by the Institut de la statistique du Québec (ISQ) for statistical purposes. Compared with legally defined RCMs, geographic RCMs provide complete coverage of the province.

This breakdown covers all of Quebec.

Reported in

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Remarks

Source: Système du code géographique du Québec – Guide explicatif et lexique.

Refer to the related definitions of Census Division (CD) and Census Subdivision (CSD).

Changes prior to the current census

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