Quebec City

Also known as Quebec, Québec, City of Québec, City of Quebec, Ville de Quebec, Quebec, Quebec, Québec, Québec

capital city of the province of Quebec, Canada

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Quebec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and serves as the seat of the National Assembly of Quebec. It is an important political and cultural center for the French-speaking province.

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Official name: Québec
Demonym: quebecchesi
Population: 574482
Area: 485.18
Elevation: 98
Official website: www.ville.quebec.qc.ca
Image: Buildings and Roads of Old Quebec City 14.jpg
Dialing code: 367
Motto: Don de Dieu feray valoir

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native label: Kephek
Commons gallery: Québec City
inception: 1608-07-03
Commons category: Quebec City
P12749: Henry Morgenthau

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Quebec City (French: Ville de Québec) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459 and the Quebec City census metropolitan area (including surrounding communities) had a population of 839,311. It is the twelfth-largest city and the seventh-largest metropolitan area in Canada. It is also the second-largest city in the province, after Montreal. It has a humid continental climate with warm summers coupled with cold and snowy winters.

Explorer Samuel de Champlain founded a French settlement here in 1608, and adopted the Algonquin name. Quebec City is one of the oldest European settlements in North America. The ramparts surrounding Old Quebec (Vieux-Québec) are the only fortified city walls remaining in the Americas north of Mexico. This area was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985 as the "Historic District of Old Québec".