Talk:List of regions of Quebec

Legal origin of the regions?
Disappointing page. I was looking for the first statute that established the regions, with citation and date; and subsequent statutes and bylaws. There's nothing in this article to suggest when the 17 regions were adopted, and by which Quebec government. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.48.79.90 (talk) 02:14, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

Definition of area
There was recently a change in the areas of the regions listed in the article. The previous source was. The current source is the 2006 Census, which writes this:
 * Land area is the area in square kilometres of the land-based portions of standard geographic areas. Land area data are unofficial, and are provided for the sole purpose of calculating population density.

The Census data are consistently higher, and the difference is too big to be explained by errors in measurement. The fact that every number is higher in the federal data makes it unlikely that that it's a matter of boundary changes. Is it possible that land-based is intended to convey that coastal waters, etc., are excluded, but that lakes and rivers are included? Joeldl 08:03, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Order of regions
The regions have official geographic codes numbered 01 through 17. The regions always seem to be ordered by code in government documents. See for example. I'm going to group the code, name, area and population in a single table ordered by code. Joeldl 12:20, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

404 Link
The 9th link in the sources "Évolution et distribution de la population par région administrative, superficie et densité, Québec, 1971-2006" points to a 404 link. It would be nice if someone was able to fix that link.

70.29.141.85 (talk) 14:20, 6 May 2012 (UTC)


 * You can get census data for the administrative regions directly from Statistics Canada, for 2011. Go to http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/search-recherche/lst/page.cfm?Lang=E&GeoCode=24&TABID=1&G=1&Geo1=PR&Code1=10&Geo2=0&Code2=0 and look under the "Economic regions" section (odd name), and click on each one.  The problem is that there are 17 separate references to cite, maybe there's a single table somewhere at the site?  Anyways, the data is there. -- P.T. Aufrette (talk) 22:33, 6 May 2012 (UTC)