Administrative Divisions of Québec at 1:20,000 and 1:100,000 Scales
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Description
Québec's administrative boundaries are provided at scales of 1:20,000 and 1:100,000. The data layers include boroughs, municipalities, unorganized territories, indigenous territories, administrative regions, and interprovincial borders. A municipal referrals file tracks name changes, and the dataset is provided by the Government and Municipalities of Québec.
Use Cases
Create jurisdictional maps based on administrative region and MRC boundaries.
Analyze municipal governance changes based on the municipal referrals file.
Perform spatial analysis of territories based on indigenous territory and unorganized territory layers.
Generate base maps for regional planning based on borough and agglomeration boundaries.
Strengths
Offers two standard cartographic scales (1:20,000 and 1:100,000) for different precision needs.
Includes a specific file for tracking municipal name changes.
Coverage includes multiple administrative levels from boroughs to international borders.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec
Freshness
Last updated 2026-06-03 18:07:27.840155; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Québec, Canada, including interprovincial and international borders.
License is CC-BY-4.0. Some metadata was translated using an automated tool (Amazon Translate).