Largest & Smallest Cities & Towns in Quebec (2026)

Quebec Boundary

The boundary shown below is sourced from OpenStreetMap contributors, not Statistics Canada, and may be incomplete depending on how thoroughly the area has been mapped.

Largest

Largest by Metro Area

This ranks Quebec by metro area — Statistics Canada's Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) or Census Agglomeration (CA) boundary, which combines a core municipality with the surrounding communities that are economically and socially integrated with it through commuting and shared labour markets. This is generally what people mean by a city's population in everyday conversation. Metro areas under 1,000 people are excluded.

CMA = Census Metropolitan Area (urban core plus commuting-integrated suburbs, total population 100,000+).
CA = Census Agglomeration (the same idea, at a smaller scale — urban core population of at least 10,000).

Largest by Municipality

This ranks Quebec by municipality — the population within each area's legal city, town, or township boundary, as defined by the province. It's the official population of the local government itself, which can be much smaller than the surrounding metro area for cities with tightly drawn boundaries. Places under 1,000 residents are excluded, as are villages, rural municipalities, unorganized "Subd." county subdivisions, and Indian reserves (which have their own ranking).

Smallest

Smallest by Metro Area

This ranks Quebec's smallest census agglomerations and metropolitan areas — Statistics Canada's combined boundary linking a core municipality with its commuting-integrated surrounding communities, rather than any single municipality's legal limits.

CMA = Census Metropolitan Area (urban core plus commuting-integrated suburbs, total population 100,000+).
CA = Census Agglomeration (the same idea, at a smaller scale — urban core population of at least 10,000).

Smallest by Municipality

This ranks Quebec's smallest municipalities by their legal city, town, or township boundary — the population governed by each local council. Places with fewer than 100 residents are excluded, since Statistics Canada suppresses or rounds very small counts, as are villages, rural municipalities, unorganized "Subd." county subdivisions, and Indian reserves.