Overview of Québec

Québec is one of the ten provinces of the Canadian federation.

Québec occupies part of a vast continental peninsula on the North Atlantic coastline. Its land mass, half of which is forested, covers an area of almost 1.7 million square kilometres and is three times the size of Spain, five times the size of Japan, and larger than the largest US state.

Water dominates the landscape in Québec, which has a million lakes and rivers and is traversed over a distance of almost 1 200 kilometres by the St. Lawrence River, whose estuary broadens to a width of 100 kilometres. The St. Lawrence is North America’s main waterway, and also one of the longest navigable rivers in the world.

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