Greater Montreal

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.