
Montreal (French: Montréal) is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the eighth-largest in North America. Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", it now takes its name from Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. It lies 196 kilometres (122 mi) east of the national capital, Ottawa, and 258 kilometres (160 mi) southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City.
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As of the 2021 Canadian census, the city had a population of 1,762,949 and a metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the second-largest metropolitan area in Canada after Toronto. French is the city's official language. In 2021, 85.7% of the population of the city of Montreal considered themselves fluent in French while 90.2% could speak it in the metropolitan area. Montreal is one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada, with 58.5% of the population able to speak both French and English. Montreal is the largest primarily French speaking city in the Americas.
Historically the commercial capital of Canada, Montreal was surpassed in population and economic strength by Toronto in the 1970s.
From the Wikipedia article Montreal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Towns around Montréal
- Ville-Marie1.7 km SE
- Mile End1.8 km N
- Outremont1.8 km NW
- Le Plateau-Mont-Royal2.2 km N
- Westmount3.0 km S
- Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie3.4 km NW
- Le Sud-Ouest4.1 km S
- Notre-Dame-de-Grâce4.1 km SW
Straight-line distance and compass bearing from the town centre.