Talk:List of Quebec regions
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[edit] Definition of area
There was recently a change in the areas of the regions listed in the article. The previous source was [1]. The current source is the 2006 Census, which writes this:
- Land area is the area in square kilometres of the land-based portions of standard geographic areas.
Land area data are unofficial, and are provided for the sole purpose of calculating population density.[2]
The Census data are consistently higher, and the difference is too big to be explained by errors in measurement. The fact that every number is higher in the federal data makes it unlikely that that it's a matter of boundary changes. Is it possible that land-based is intended to convey that coastal waters, etc., are excluded, but that lakes and rivers are included? Joeldl 08:03, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Order of regions
The regions have official geographic codes numbered 01 through 17. The regions always seem to be ordered by code in government documents. See [3] for example. I'm going to group the code, name, area and population in a single table ordered by code. Joeldl 12:20, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
