Rivière-du-Loup
Rivière-du-Loup | |
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Downtown Rivière-du-Loup | |
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Flag Seal | |
Location within Rivière-du-Loup RCM | |
Rivière-du-Loup Location in eastern Quebec | |
| Coordinates: 47°50′N 69°32′W / 47.833°N 69.533°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
| RCM | Rivière-du-Loup |
| Settled | 1850 as Fraserville |
| Constituted | December 30, 1998 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Mario Bastille |
| • MP | Bernard Généreux (C) |
| • MNA | Amélie Dionne (C) |
| Area | |
• City | 138.40 km2 (53.44 sq mi) |
| • Land | 83.74 km2 (32.33 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 20.17 km2 (7.79 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 543.02 km2 (209.66 sq mi) |
| Population (2021) | |
• City | 20,118 |
| • Density | 240.2/km2 (622/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 19,081 |
| • Urban density | 945.8/km2 (2,450/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 30,025 |
| • Metro density | 55.3/km2 (143/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2016-2021 | 3.1% |
| • Dwellings | 10,045 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area codes | 418 and 581 |
| Highways A-20 (TCH) A-85 (TCH) | R-132 R-191 R-291 |
| Website | villerdl |
Rivière-du-Loup (French pronunciation: [ʁivjɛʁ dy lu]; 2021 population 20,118) is a small city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the judicial district of Kamouraska. It is one of the largest cities in Bas-Saint-Laurent.