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Lotbinière
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 46°31′N 71°36′W / 46.517°N 71.600°W / 46.517; -71.600 [1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Sainte-Croix
Government [2]
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Daniel Turcotte
Area [2] [3]
• Total	1,687.00 km2 (651.35 sq mi)
• Land	1,662.27 km2 (641.81 sq mi)
Population  (2016) [3]
• Total	34 553
• Density	19.1/km2 (49/sq mi)
• Change 2011-2016	7.2%
• Dwellings	14,642
Time zone	UTC−5 ( EST)
• Summer ( DST)	UTC−4 ( EDT)
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Website	www.mrclotbiniere.org

Lotbinière is a regional county municipality in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of Quebec. It is an almost exclusively rural RCM, with no village with a population above 4,000. As of the 2016 Canadian Census, the RCM had a population of 31,741. ^[3] Its seat is in Sainte-Croix.

Subdivisions

There are 18 subdivisions within the RCM: ^[2]

Demographics

Language

Mother tongue from 2016 Canadian Census ^[3]

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border: ^[5]

See also

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec

References

External links

• (in French) Lotbinière Regional County