Côte-Nord
Côte- Nord is an administrative region (French région administrative ) in the northeast of the Canadian province of Quebec.
It is further in six regional county municipalities ( municipalites Clarisse de comté ) as well as 53 municipalities, Reserves, and unincorporated areas divided. Seat of administration is Baie- Comeau. The region also includes the island of Anticosti and the Mingan Archipelago.
Its population is 95 802 (2011), the land area of 236,699.6 km ², which corresponds to a population density of 0.4 inhabitants per km ². 91.5 % of residents speak French and 4.4% English as the main language.
In the east, borders Côte -Nord to the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, to the south by the Gulf of St. Lawrence, on the southwest by the Capitale-Nationale region to the west of Saguenay -Lac -Saint- Jean, on the north by the North -du- Québec. In spite of an arbitration award of the Judicial Committee of the British Privy Council in 1927 a part of the border to Labrador is controversial; the provincial government designated the boundaries as " definitely not ".
Structure
Regional county municipalities ( MRC):
- Caniapiscau
- La Haute- Côte -Nord
- Le Golfe -du -Saint -Laurent
- Manicouagan
- Minganie
- Sept- Rivières
Reserves outside a MRC:
- Betsiamites
- Essipit
- Kawawachikamach
- La Romaine
- Maliotenam
- Matimekosh
- Mingan
- Natashquan
- Pakuashipi
- Uashat