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Quebec City

Quebec City is the capital of the province of . It sits at a commanding position on cliffs overlooking the St. Lawrence Seaway. Quebec City's Old Town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of only three cities in North America with its original city walls.
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  • Type: City with 530,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of the province of Quebec, Canada
  • Also known as: “3rd Summit of the Americas”, “Altepetl Quebec”, “City of Quebec”, “City of Québec”, “Quebec”, “Québec”, “Quebec, Quebec”, “Québec, Québec”, “Ville de Quebec”, and “Ville de Québec”
  • Neighbors: , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Palace Station and Chateau St. Louis.

Railway station
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Gare du Palais is a train and bus station in Quebec City, , Canada. Its name comes from its proximity to the former location of the Palace of the Intendant of New France.

Museum
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The in Quebec City was the official residence of the French Governor of New France and later the Governor of Quebec, the Governor-General of British North America, and the Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada.

Museum
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The , often directly translated in English-language media outside Quebec as the Museum of Civilization, is a located in Quebec City, , Canada.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lévis and Plains of Abraham.

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is a city of 149,700 in the region of , located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, opposite Quebec City. A ferry links Old Quebec with Old , and two bridges, the Quebec Bridge and the Pierre-Laporte Bridge, connect western with Quebec City.

Locality
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The is a historic area within in Quebec City, Quebec, . It was established on 17 March 1908. The land is the site of the Battle of the , which took place on 13 September 1759, but hundreds of acres of the fields became used for grazing, housing, and minor industrial structures.

Suburb
is a former city in central , . It was amalgamated into Quebec City in 2002. It is located within the Borough of Les Rivières. Population : 11,504 , a shopping centre is located in .

Quebec City

Latitude
46.8126° or 46° 48′ 45″ north
Longitude
-71.2154° or 71° 12′ 56″ west
Population
530,000
Elevation
54 metres (177 feet)
Abbreviation
“QC”
IATA airport code
YQB
United Nations Location Code
CA QUE
Open location code
87RCRQ7M+2R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30915641
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
6325494
Wiki­data ID
Q2145
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Quebec City” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Quebecstad”
  • Albanian: “Kebeku”
  • Amharic: “ኬበክ ከተማ”
  • Arabic: “كيبك”
  • Arabic: “مدينة كباك”
  • Arabic: “مدينة كبك”
  • Arabic: “مدينة كيبك”
  • Aragonese: “Québec (ciudat)”
  • Aragonese: “Québec”
  • Armenian: “Քվեբեկ քաղաք”
  • Armenian: “Քվեբեկ”
  • Arpitan: “Quèbèc (vela)”
  • Arpitan: “Quèbèc”
  • Asturian: “ciudá de Quebec”
  • Asturian: “Quebec”
  • Asturian: “Québec”
  • Atikamekw: “Opictikweak”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kvebek”
  • Balinese: “Kota Québec”
  • Basque: “Quebec Hiria”
  • Belarusian: “Квебек”
  • Belarusian: “Квэбэк”
  • Bengali: “কেবেক শহর”
  • Bengali: “কেবেক সিটি”
  • Bosnian: “Quebec”
  • Breton: “Kebek”
  • Bulgarian: “Квебек”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat de Quebec”
  • Catalan: “Quebec”
  • Cebuano: “Québec (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Québec”
  • Chechen: “Квебек”
  • Chinese: “Québec-chhī”
  • Chinese: “魁北克”
  • Chinese: “魁北克城”
  • Chinese: “魁北克市”
  • Chuvash: “Квебек”
  • Cornish: “Sita Kebek”
  • Corsican: “Cità di Quebec”
  • Corsican: “Cità di Québec”
  • Corsican: “Quebec”
  • Cree: “ᑫᐯᒃ”
  • Croatian: “Québec”
  • Czech: “Québec”
  • Danish: “Québec”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Quebec City”
  • Dutch: “Québec-Stad”
  • Dutch: “Quebec”
  • Dutch: “Québec”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيبك”
  • Esperanto: “Kebeko”
  • Esperanto: “Kebekurbo”
  • Estonian: “Québec”
  • Faroese: “Quebec City”
  • Finnish: “Quebec”
  • French: “Capitale du Québec”
  • French: “Qc”
  • French: “Québec”
  • French: “Ville de Québec”
  • Galician: “Quebec”
  • Georgian: “კვებეკი”
  • German: “Québec-Stadt”
  • German: “Quebec”
  • German: “Québec”
  • Greek: “Κεμπέκ”
  • Guarani: “Kévek táva”
  • Gujarati: “ક્યૂબેક શહેર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Québec-sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Kebek (birni)”
  • Hausa: “Kebek”
  • Hebrew: “קוויבק סיטי”
  • Hindi: “क्यूबेक नगर”
  • Hungarian: “Québec”
  • Icelandic: “Québecborg”
  • Ido: “Québec”
  • Iloko: “Siudad ti Quebec”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Quebec”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑳᐸᒃ”
  • Irish: “Cathair Québec”
  • Italian: “Città di Québec”
  • Italian: “Québec”
  • Japanese: “ケベック・シティー”
  • Japanese: “ケベック市”
  • Kabyle: “Kebek”
  • Kabyle: “Tamdint n Kebek”
  • Kalaallisut: “Québec”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯುಬೆಕ್ ನಗರ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kvebek”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Квебек”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Куебек”
  • Kazakh: “Квебек”
  • Kirghiz: “Квебек”
  • Korean: “퀘벡”
  • Korean: “퀴베크”
  • Ladino: “Sivdad de Kebek”
  • Latin: “Quebecum urbs”
  • Latvian: “Kvebeka”
  • Latvian: “Kvebeksitija”
  • Ligurian: “Çittæ do Quebec”
  • Literary Chinese: “魁北克市”
  • Lithuanian: “Kvebekas”
  • Lombard: “Québec”
  • Luxembourgish: “Québec”
  • Macedonian: “Квебек”
  • Malagasy: “Québec”
  • Malay: “Bandar Raya Quebec”
  • Malay: “Bandaraya Quebec”
  • Malayalam: “ക്യൂബെക് സിറ്റി”
  • Maltese: “Belt ta‘ Quebec”
  • Maltese: “Quebec”
  • Maltese: “Québec”
  • Maori: “Kuipeka”
  • Marathi: “क्वेबेक शहर”
  • Marathi: “क्वेबेक सिटी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Québec-chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “კვებეკი (ნოღა)”
  • Mingrelian: “კვებეკი”
  • Moksha: “Квэбэк”
  • Narom: “Qùubec”
  • Narom: “Tchubec”
  • Northern Frisian: “‎Quebec (stääd)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Quebec”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Québec (by)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Québec”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Québec”
  • Norwegian: “Québec”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ciutat de Quebèc”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Quebèc”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Vila de Quebèc”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cwebecburg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Quebecceaster”
  • Ossetian: “Квебек”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੇਬੈਕ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੇਬੈੱਕ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ”
  • Papiamento: “Quebec City”
  • Persian: “کبک”
  • Picard: “Kébéc Vile”
  • Piemontese: “Québec (sità)”
  • Piemontese: “Québec”
  • Polish: “Quebec”
  • Polish: “Québec”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Quebec”
  • Portuguese: “Quebec City”
  • Portuguese: “Quebec, Quebec”
  • Portuguese: “Quebec”
  • Portuguese: “Ville de Québec”
  • Quechua: “Quebec llaqta”
  • Romanian: “Québec”
  • Russian: “Квебек”
  • Sardinian: “Québec”
  • Scots: “Ceety o Quebec”
  • Scots: “Quebec Ceety”
  • Scots: “Quebec”
  • Scots: “Québec”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Quebec”
  • Serbian: “Квебек”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Québec”
  • Silesian: “Québec (mjasto)”
  • Silesian: “Québec”
  • Sinhala: “කිව්බෙක් සිටි”
  • Slovak: “Quebec”
  • Slovenian: “Quebec City”
  • Slovenian: “Quebec”
  • Slovenian: “Québec”
  • Slovenian: “Ville de Québec”
  • Somali: “Quebec City”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کبئک”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کبک شهری”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Quebec”
  • Spanish: “Quebec”
  • Spanish: “villa de Quebec”
  • Swahili: “Jiji la Quebec”
  • Swedish: “Quebec City”
  • Swedish: “Québec City”
  • Swedish: “Quebec”
  • Swedish: “Québec”
  • Swiss German: “D Stadt Québec”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Québec”
  • Tajik: “Квебек”
  • Tamil: “கியூபெக் நகரம்”
  • Tatar: “Квебек (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Квебек”
  • Telugu: “క్యూబెక్ నగరం”
  • Thai: “ควิเบก”
  • Thai: “นครเกแบ็ก”
  • Thai: “นครควิเบก”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Québec”
  • Turkish: “Quebec City”
  • Turkish: “Quebec, Quebec”
  • Turkish: “Québec, Québec”
  • Turkish: “Quebec”
  • Turkish: “Québec”
  • Twi: “Québec”
  • Uighur: “Kwébék Shehiri”
  • Uighur: “Kwébék”
  • Uighur: “كۋېبېك شەھىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Квебек”
  • Urdu: “کیوبک شہر”
  • Uzbek: “Kvebek”
  • Venetian: “Québec”
  • Vietnamese: “Québec”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Québec”
  • Volapük: “Québec”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Quebec”
  • Welsh: “Québec”
  • Western Armenian: “Քեպէգ քաղաք”
  • Western Frisian: “Kebek”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیبیک شہر”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیوبک شہر”
  • Wolof: “Québec”
  • Wu Chinese: “魁北克市”
  • Yakut: “Куэбэк”
  • Yue Chinese: “魁北克市”
  • Zhuang: “Quebec”
  • “Āltepētl Quebec”

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