Greater Montreal
Greater Montreal
Grand Montréal (French) | ||
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Interactive Map of Greater Montreal
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| Country | Canada | |
| Province | Québec | |
| Area | ||
• Total | 4,739.04 km2 (1,829.75 sq mi) | |
| • Land | 4,258.31 km2 (1,644.14 sq mi) | |
| Population (2021) | ||
• Total | 4,291,732 | |
• Estimate (2024) | 4,615,154 | |
| • Density | 1,007.85/km2 (2,610.3/sq mi) | |
| GDP (nominal, 2022) | ||
| • Total | CA$279.5 billion (US$223.6 billion) | |
| Time zone | UTC−05:00 (Eastern) | |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−04:00 (EDT) | |
| Postal code prefixes | ||
| Area codes | 438, 450, 514, 579 | |
Greater Montreal shown in light blue, with the City of Montreal proper in dark blue. | ||
Greater Montreal (French: Grand Montréal, [ɡʁɑ̃ mɔ̃ʁeal]) 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 mi2) with a population of 4,027,100, almost 50% of the province.
A smaller area of 3,838 square kilometres (1,482 mi2) 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 Soraya Martinez Ferrada).
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 banlieues hors de l'île (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.