(F) Montréal est la métropole du Québec au Canada. La ville est située sur l'île de Montréal, dans l'archipel d'Hochelaga, en bordure du Saint-Laurent, à proximité de l'Ontario et des États-Unis. Elle est le centre de la culture et des affaires de la province.
Montréal a accueilli l'Exposition universelle de 1967 et les Jeux olympiques d'été de 1976. Elle est l'hôte annuel du Festival des films du monde de Montréal, du Festival international de jazz de Montréal, du festival Juste pour rire, du Festival Montréal en lumière et du Grand Prix de Formule 1 du Canada. Le club de hockey des Canadiens de Montréal y a élu domicile dès sa création en 1909. Son quartier historique, le Vieux-Montréal, a été déclaré arrondissement historique en 1964.
Montréal est couramment considérée comme la deuxième ville francophone dans le monde après Paris (2,1 millions de personnes)même si techniquement Kinshasa et Abidjan sont des villes francophones plus peuplées ; elle est en revanche la seule métropole francophone en Amérique du Nord. Sa population est plus du triple de celle de Québec, la capitale de la province
En 2011, la ville comptait 1 649 515 habitants, et son agglomération près de 4 millions. En 2006, environ 52,4 % de sa population était de culture et de langue française, 32,4 % était de culture et de langue autre que le français et l'anglais et 12,5 % était de culture et de langue anglaise, faisant de Montréal une ville interculturelle.
(EN) Montreal is a city in the Canadian province of Quebec. It is the largest city in the province, the second-largest in the country (after Toronto) and the fifteenth-largest in North America. Originally called Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill located in the heart of the city, or Mont Réal as it was spelled in Middle French(Mont Royal in present French). The city is located on the Island of Montreal, which took its name from the same source as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard.
As of 2011, the city of Montreal had a population of 1,649,519.Montreal's metropolitan area (CMA) (land area 4,259 square kilometres (1,644 sq mi)) had an estimated metropolitan population of 3,824,221 and a population of 1,886,481 in the urban agglomeration of Montreal, all of the municipalities on the Island of Montreal included.
French is the city's official language and is also the language spoken at home by 56.9% of the population in the city of Montreal proper, followed by English at 18.6% and 19.8% other languages (as of 2006 census). In the larger Montreal Census Metropolitan Area, 67.9% of the population speaks French at home, compared to 16.5% who speak English. 56% of the population are able to speak both English and French. Montreal is the second largest French-speaking city in the Western world after Paris.
Montreal was called "Canada's Cultural Capital" by Monocle and recently was named a UNESCO City of Design.Though historically the commercial capital of Canada, after 1976 it was surpassed in population, as well as economic strength, by Toronto. Today it continues as an important centre of commerce, aerospace, finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, design, culture, tourism, film and world affairs.
In 2010, Montreal was named a hub city, ranked 34th globally out of 289 cities for innovation across multiple sectors of the urban economy, in the Innovation Cities Index by[clarification needed] 2thinknow. In 2009, Montreal was named North America's number one host city for international association events, according to the 2009 preliminary rankings of the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA).
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