Outaouais
Outaouais is an administrative region of western Quebec, Canada. It includes the city of Gatineau, the municipality of Val-des-Monts, the municipality of Cantley and the Papineau region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Gatineau and Montebello.
Gatineau
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Gatineau is a city in the Outaouais region of Quebec, on the north shore of the Ottawa River, across from Canada's capital, Ottawa. It is part of the official National Capital Region which constitutes the fourth largest urban area in the country, after Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.
Montebello
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Montebello is a village of 983 people and a thousand cows in the west of the province of Quebec, on the eastern edge of Canada's National Capital region.
Wakefield
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Wakefield is a picturesque village Municipality of La Pêche on the Gatineau River in the Gatineau Hills near Ottawa. It is on the Quebec side of the river, but is predominantly English-speaking.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Gatineau Park and Bristol.
Gatineau Park
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Gatineau Park is the outdoor playground for Canada's National Capital Region. It offers amazing possibilities for outdoor recreation, within a 20-minute drive of either city.
Bristol
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Bristol is a picturesque municipality located on the north shore of the Ottawa River, in the regional county municipality of Pontiac, in the administrative region of Outaouais, in Quebec.
Chelsea
Chelsea is a municipality of 7,500 people in Outaouais. From Ottawa, it is just beyond Gatineau and many Chelsea residents commute to one of those cities for work.
Pontiac
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Pontiac is a regional county municipality in the Outaouais region of Quebec, Canada. Campbell's Bay is the county seat. It should not be confused with the municipality of Pontiac, which is located in the neighbouring Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais Regional County Municipality.
Outaouais
- Type: administrative region of Quebec with 405,000 residents
- Description: administrative region in Quebec, Canada
- Also known as: “Gatineau”
- Neighbors: Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Laurentians, and Mauricie
- Location: Quebec, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Outaouais” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Outaouais”
- Basque: “Outaouais”
- Belarusian: “Атава”
- Bulgarian: “Оутаоуаис”
- Catalan: “Outaouais”
- Cebuano: “Outaouais”
- Chinese: “Outaouais”
- Chinese: “渥太華河地區”
- Chinese: “烏塔韋區”
- Dutch: “Outaouais”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوتاوى”
- Esperanto: “Otavio”
- Estonian: “Outaouais”
- Finnish: “Outaouais”
- French: “Outaouais”
- German: “Outaouais”
- Greek: “Ουταουαί”
- Hakka Chinese: “Outaouais”
- Irish: “Outaouais”
- Italian: “Outaouais”
- Japanese: “ウタウエ地域”
- Latin: “Outaouais”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Outaouais”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Outaouais”
- Norwegian: “Outaouais”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Outaouais”
- Persian: “اوتاوه”
- Polish: “Outaouais”
- Portuguese: “Outaouais”
- Russian: “Оттава”
- Scots: “Outaouais”
- Slovenian: “Outaouais”
- Spanish: “Outaouais”
- Swedish: “Outaouais”
- Ukrainian: “Оттава”
- Ukrainian: “Утауе”
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