La Mitis Regional County Municipality
Regional county municipality in Quebec, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For homonymy, see Mitis (disambiguation).
La Mitis is a regional county municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region in eastern Quebec, Canada on the Gaspé peninsula. It is named for the Mitis River (The Mitis) which has its source in the region (at Lac Inférieur) and flows through the central part of the region before emptying into the Saint Lawrence River.
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La Mitis | |
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Coordinates: 48.53°N 68.08°W / 48.53; -68.08[1] | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
Effective | January 1, 1982 |
County seat | Mont-Joli |
Government | |
• Type | Prefecture |
• Prefect | Michel Côté |
Area | |
• Total | 2,538.80 km2 (980.24 sq mi) |
• Land | 2,281.25 km2 (880.80 sq mi) |
Population (2016)[3] | |
• Total | 18,210 |
• Density | 8.0/km2 (21/sq mi) |
• Change 2011–2016 | 3.9% |
• Dwellings | 9,692 |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
Website | www |
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The county seat is in Mont-Joli.