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

Estrie (05)
Sherbrooke City | Coaticook | Le Granit | Le Haut-Saint-François | Les Sources | Memphrémagog | Le Val-Saint-François Neighbouring regions: Chaudière-Appalaches | Montérégie | Centre-du-Québec