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Rivière-du-Loup
City in Quebec, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Rivière-du-Loup (disambiguation).
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.[6] Its one of the largest cities in Bas-Saint-Laurent.
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Rivière-du-Loup | |
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![]() Downtown Rivière-du-Loup | |
![]() Location within Rivière-du-Loup RCM | |
Coordinates: 47°50′N 69°32′W[1] | |
Country | ![]() |
Province | ![]() |
Region | Bas-Saint-Laurent |
RCM | Rivière-du-Loup |
Settled | 1850 as Fraserville |
Constituted | December 30, 1998 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Mario Bastille |
• Federal riding | Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup |
• Prov. riding | Rivière-du-Loup–Témiscouata |
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)[3] | |
• 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 | ![]() |
• Dwellings | 10,045 |
Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
Postal code(s) | |
Area code(s) | 418 and 581 |
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Website | villerdl |
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