Les Basques Regional County Municipality

Les Basques (Template:IPA, the Basques) is a regional county municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region in eastern Quebec, Canada. It is located on the south bank of the Saint Lawrence River halfway between Rimouski and Rivière-du-Loup.

The county seat is in Trois-Pistoles.

Subdivisions

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Cities & towns (1)

• Trois-Pistoles

Municipalities (7)

• Notre-Dame-des-Neiges
• Saint-Clément
• Sainte-Rita
• Saint-Jean-de-Dieu
• Saint-Mathieu-de-Rioux
• Saint-Médard
• Saint-Simon-de-Rimouski

Parishes (2)

• Sainte-Françoise
• Saint-Éloi

Unorganized territory (1)

• Lac-Boisbouscache

Demographics

Trois-Pistoles

Language

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Transportation

Access routes

Quebec Route 293 in Saint-Jean-de-Dieu

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:<ref>Official Transport Quebec Road Map</ref> Template:Col-begin Template:Col-4

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• External routes
  • None

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec

References

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