Montreal Real Estate, Québec

Montreal, or Montréal in French, is the second-largest city in Canada and the largest city in the province of Quebec. Originally called Ville-Marie (literally 'City-Mary', translated 'Mary's City' or 'City of Mary'), the city had come to be known as Montréal by the end of the 17th century, surely an Occitan name (in French Mont Royal, "Mount Royal"), the name of the three-head hill at the heart of the city.

Formerly the largest metropolis of Canada (a distinction acquired by Toronto in the mid-1970s), it has the third-largest French-speaking population in the world after Paris and Kinshasa. As of the 2006 Canadian Census, 1,620,693 people resided in the city of Montreal proper. The population of the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area (also known as Greater Montreal Area) was 3,635,571 at the same 2006 census. In 2007, Montreal was ranked as the 10th cleanest city in the world (in an eight-way tie for 10th place with Geneva, Switzerland; Nurnberg, Germany; Pittsburgh, PA; Lexington, KY; Boston, MA; Vancouver, BC and Bern, Switzerland).

It is the second most visited city in Canada with approximately 13 million foreign tourists a year, behind Toronto.

Population: 1 637 563 (2006)
Area: 363,52 km²

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