Le Granit Regional County Municipality, Quebec
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Le Granit (Granite) is a regional county municipality in the Estrie region of eastern Quebec, Canada. Located directly south of Quebec City, it borders the region of Chaudière-Appalaches, as well as the US states of New Hampshire and Maine. It is named for its abundance of granite. Created in 1982, Le Granit's seat is Lac-Mégantic.
Le Granit had 21,830 inhabitants residing in 10,237 private dwellings, according to the Canada 2001 Census. It had a 2.6 percent population growth rate between 1996 and 2001.
[edit] Municipalities
- Audet
- Courcelles
- Frontenac
- Lac-Drolet
- Lac-Mégantic
- Lambton
- Marston
- Milan
- Nantes
- Notre-Dame-des-Bois
- Piopolis
- Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn
- Saint-Ludger
- Saint-Robert-Bellarmin
- Saint-Romain
- Saint-Sébastien
- Sainte-Cécile-de-Whitton
- Stornoway
- Stratford
- Val-Racine
[edit] Highways
Highways in Le Granit include:
- Quebec route 112
- Quebec route 161
- Quebec route 204
- Quebec route 212
- Quebec route 214
- Quebec route 263
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Sherbrooke City | Coaticook | Le Granit | Le Haut-Saint-François | Les Sources | Memphrémagog | Le Val-Saint-François Neighbouring regions: Chaudière-Appalaches | Montérégie | Centre-du-Québec |
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