Official Place Names in Quebec, Excluding Street Names

Official toponyms for locations within Quebec, Canada, excluding odonyms (names of communication routes). The dataset is provided by the Government and Municipalities of Québec under a CC-BY-4.0 license and was last updated on April 22, 2026. It is available in DOCX and CSV formats.

Use Cases

• Build a gazetteer or geocoding service based on official place names.
• Validate and standardize location references in documents or databases.
• Analyze the linguistic or cultural distribution of place names across Quebec.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the official Government and Municipalities of Québec.
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Last update timestamp is explicitly provided (2026-04-22 17:45:26.922595).

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

Collection Method

Likely an official administrative compilation.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 17:45:26.922595.

Geography

Quebec, Canada