For other metropolitan Montreal topics, see Montreal Metro (disambiguation).
Metropolitan Area in Québec, Canada
Greater Montreal
Grand Montréal(French)
Metropolitan Area
Interactive Map of Greater Montreal[1]
City of Montreal / Ville de Montréal
City of Laval / Ville de Laval
City of Longueuil / Ville de Longueuil
Municipalities in both Montreal Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) and Montreal Metropolitan Community (MMC)
Municipalities in Montreal Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) but not in Montreal Metropolitan Community (MMC)
Municipalities not in Montreal Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) but in Montreal Metropolitan Community (MMC)
Country
Canada
Province
Québec
Area
[2]
• Total
4,739.04 km2 (1,829.75 sq mi)
• Land
4,258.31 km2 (1,644.14 sq mi)
Population
(2021)[3]
• Total
4,291,732
• Density
1,007.85/km2 (2,610.3/sq mi)
GDP
• Montreal CMA
CA$228.7 billion (2020)[4]
Time zone
UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)
UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code prefixes
H, J
Area code(s)
438, 450, 514, 579
Greater Montreal shown in light blue, with the City of Montreal proper in dark blue.
Greater Montreal (French: Grand Montréal) is the most populous metropolitan area in Quebec and the second most populous in Canada after Greater Toronto. In 2015, Statistics Canada identified Montreal's Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) as 4,258.31 square kilometres (1,644.14 sq mi) with a population of 4,027,100,[5] almost half that of the province.
A smaller area of 3,838 square kilometres (1,482 sq mi) is governed by the Montreal Metropolitan Community (MMC) (French: Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal, CMM). This level of government is headed by a president (currently Montreal mayor Valérie Plante).
The inner ring is composed of densely populated municipalities located in close proximity to Downtown Montreal. It includes the entire Island of Montreal, Laval, and the Urban Agglomeration of Longueuil. Due to their proximity to Montreal's downtown core, some additional suburbs on the South Shore (Brossard, Saint-Lambert, and Boucherville) are usually included in the inner ring, despite their location on the mainland.
The outer ring is composed of low-density municipalities located on the fringe of Metropolitan Montreal. Most of these cities and towns are semi-rural. Specifically, the term off-island suburbs refers to those suburbs that are located on the North Shore of the Mille-Îles River, those on the South Shore that were never included in the megacity of Longueuil, and those on the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Peninsula.
^"Population and dwelling counts: Census metropolitan areas, census agglomerations and census subdivisions (municipalities)". Canada 2021 Census. Statistics Canada. 2022. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
^"Census Profile - Montreal Census Metropolitan Area". Canada 2011 Census. Statistics Canada. 8 February 2012. Archived from the original on 15 January 2016. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
^"Population and dwelling counts, for census metropolitan areas, 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data". Statistics Canada. Government of Canada. 8 February 2017. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
^"Statistics Canada. Table 36-10-0468-01 Gross domestic product (GDP) at basic prices, by census metropolitan area (CMA) (x 1,000,000)". Statistics Canada.
^"Grand Montréal: maintenant 4 millions de personnes". journalmetro.com. 12 February 2015. Archived from the original on 20 October 2017. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
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