Caniapiscau Regional County Municipality
Appearance
Caniapiscau is a regional county municipality in northeastern Quebec, Canada. The regional county municipality seat is Fermont. It is located in the northwest corner of the Côte-Nord region of Quebec. It has a land area of 70,389.37 square kilometres (27,177.49 sq mi) and a 2006 census population of 3,948 inhabitants, two-thirds of whom lived in its largest city of Fermont. The census grouped the municipality's territory with neighboring Sept-Rivières into the single census division of Sept-Rivières—Caniapiscau.
Subdivisions
Cities and towns
- Fermont (Pop: 2,633)
- Schefferville (Pop: 202)
Unorganized territories
Indian reserves
- Lac-John pop: 16 (within its boundaries but administratively not part of the regional county municipality)
- Matimekosh pop: 528 (within its boundaries but administratively not part of the regional county municipality)
Naskapi reserve land
- Kawawachikamach pop: 569 (within its boundaries but administratively not part of the regional county municipality)
Demographics
- Land area: 70,389.37 km²
- Population: 3,948
Adjacent census divisions
- Nunavik
- Division No. 10, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Sept-Rivières
- Manicouagan
- Le Fjord-du-Saguenay
- Jamésie
References
- Sept-Rivières--Caniapiscau Census Division, Quebec Statistics Canada