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Is quebec a country or is it a city in canada? |
Travel Info Is quebec a country or is it a city in canada? Travel Tips When someone normally refers to "Quebec", they are talking about the province in the country of Canada. A province is NOT like a county, but rather closely resembles a state. Provinces have their own sales tax, police force, and a Premier (similar to a state governor). There is also a city named Quebec City, which is the legislative capital of the Quebec province. This is kind of like the US that has the city of Washinton (in DC) and the state of Washington. Others Quebec is a province in Canada. It is neither. It is a province in Canada. It's a city name (Quebec City) and a province name (a province is like a county in the US). The people there have such a strong sense of their French culture/ancestral settlers that many have wanted to break off from Canada to have their own country, though, hence some confusion is possible. Hope this helps! Thanks for the two points. It would have been a lot quicker to search the internet and get an answer than post this question and wait for an answer. Quebec city is a city in the province of Quebec; a province in Canada. Quebec City Quebec City or Qu茅bec (French: Ville de Qu茅bec, or simply Qu茅bec) is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec. It is the second largest city in the province, after Montreal. Quebec's Old Town (Vieux-Qu茅bec), the only North American fortified city north of Mexico whose walls still exist, was declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1985 as the "Historic District of Old Quebec". It is also one of the oldest cities in North America. The city has a population of 528,595, and the metropolitan area has a population of 717,600 (2005). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/quebec_city... Quebec Province Quebec (pronounced [k拾w蓹藞b蓻k] or [k拾蓹藞b蓻k]) or, in French, Qu茅bec (pronounced [keb蓻k]),[1] is a Canadian province in Eastern Canada. Affectionately known as la belle province ("the beautiful province"), Quebec is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario, James Bay and Hudson Bay. To the north are the Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay, to the east the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the provinces of New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador, and to the south the United States (the states of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine). It also shares maritime borders with the Territory of Nunavut and the provinces of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. Quebec is Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory of Nunavut is larger. It is the second most populated province, and most of its inhabitants live along or close to the banks of the Saint Lawrence River. The central and north portion of the province is sparsely populated and inhabited by the aboriginal peoples of Canada. The official language of Quebec is French; it is the sole Canadian province whose population is mainly French Canadian, and where English is not an official language at the provincial level. Quebec, then called Canada, formed part of the colonial empire of New France until the Seven Years' War, when it was conquered by Great Britain; the 1763 Treaty of Paris formally transferred the colony to British possession. Quebec became a province of the Canadian Confederation upon its founding in 1867. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/quebec... in english canada we simply call it france |
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