Outaouais

This article is about the region of Quebec. For other uses, see Outaouais (disambiguation).

Outaouais
Administrative region
Coordinates:
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Regional County Municipalities (RCM) and Equivalent Territories (ET)	4 RCM, 1 ET La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais Papineau Pontiac Gatineau (ET)
Government
• Regional conference of elected officers	Paulette Lalande (President)
Area
• Land	30,504 km2 (11,778 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	368,181
• Density	12.1/km2 (31/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Outaouaien(ne)
Time zone	EST (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
Postal code	J
Area code	819
Website	outaouais.gouv.qc.ca

Outaouais (French pronunciation: ​[utawɛ]) is a region of western Quebec, Canada. It includes the city of Gatineau (Hull, Aylmer, Gatineau, Masson-Angers, Buckingham), the Pontiac region, and the town of Maniwaki, and is located on the north side of the Ottawa River opposite Canada's capital, Ottawa. It has a land area of 30,760.05 square kilometres (11,876.52 sq mi) and a 2011 census population of 372,000 inhabitants.

Subdivisions

Regional County Municipalities

Regional County Municipality (RCM)	Population Canada 2011 Census	Land Area	Density (pop. per km2)	Seat of RCM
La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau	20,530	12,477.19 km2 (4,817.47 sq mi)	1.6	Gracefield
Les Collines-de-l'Outaouais	46,393	2,048.24 km2 (790.83 sq mi)	22.7	Chelsea
Papineau	22,541	2,941.82 km2 (1,135.84 sq mi)	7.7	Papineauville
Pontiac	14,358	12,992.69 km2 (5,016.51 sq mi)	1.1	Campbell's Bay
Gatineau (Equivalent territory)	265,349	342.98 km2 (132.43 sq mi)	773.7	Gatineau

First Nations Reserves

• Kitigan Zibi
• Lac-Rapide

Major communities

• Bristol
• Cantley
• Chelsea
• Déléage
• Fort-Coulonge
• Gatineau
• Gracefield
• Kitigan Zibi
• L'Ange-Gardien
• La Pêche
• L'Isle-aux-Allumettes

• Maniwaki
• Mansfield-et-Pontefract
• Messines
• Papineauville
• Municipality of Pontiac
• Ripon
• Saint-André-Avellin
• Shawville
• Thurso
• Val-des-Monts

School Boards

Francophone:

• Commission scolaire au Cœur-des-Vallées
• Commission scolaire des Draveurs
• Commission scolaire des Hauts-Bois-de-l'Outaouais
• Commission scolaire des Portages-de-l'Outaouais

Anglophone:

• Western Québec School Board

External links

• Portail régional de l'Outaouais Official website (French)
• Répertoire des clubs de golf de la région de l'Outaouais (French)