La Jacques-Cartier Regional County Municipality

La Jacques-Cartier
La Jacques-Cartier
Regional county municipality
	Coordinates: 47°02′N 71°35′W / 47.033°N 71.583°W
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Capitale-Nationale
Effective	April 1, 1981
County seat	Shannon
Municipalities	List Shannon; Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier; Lac-Beauport; Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury; Lac-Delage; Fossambault-sur-le-Lac; Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier; Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval; Lac-Saint-Joseph; Lac-Croche;
Government
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Jacques Marcotte
Area
• Total	3,321.20 km2 (1,282.32 sq mi)
• Land	3,183.75 km2 (1,229.25 sq mi)
Population (2021)
• Total	47,813
• Density	15/km2 (40/sq mi)
• Change; 2016-2021	10%
• Dwellings	19,877
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Website	www.mrc.; lajacquescartier.qc.ca

La Jacques-Cartier is a regional county municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada. The seat is in Shannon. It is named after the Jacques-Cartier River which runs through it and takes its source in its upper country.

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^ Ministère des Affaires municipale et des Régions du Québec. "MRC La Jacques-Cartier - Répertoire des municipalités". Archived from the original on 2009-01-18. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
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^ ^a ^b "Census Profile, 2021 Census: La Jacques-Cartier, Municipalité régionale de comté [Census division], Quebec". Statistics Canada. Retrieved September 8, 2022.