The term regional county municipality or RCM (French French is a Romance language spoken, around the world, by about 77 million people as a first language (mother tongue), by 50 million as a second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired foreign language, with significant speakers in 54 countries[citation needed]. Most native speakers of the language live in France, where: municipalité régionale de comté, MRC) is used in the Canadian Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area and shares the world's longest common border with the United States to the south and northwest province of Quebec Quebec , in French, Québec ( /kebɛk/ (help·info)), is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level to designate one of 86 county A county is a land area of local government within a country. A county may have cities and towns within its area-like political and geographic units. In most cases, they are also census divisions The census geographic units of Canada are the country subdivisions defined and used by Canada's federal government statistics bureau Statistics Canada to conduct the country's five-yearly census. They exist on four levels: the top-level divisions are Canada's provinces and territories; these are divided into second-level census divisions, which in. Regional County Municipalities are a supralocal type of "Regional Municipality A Regional Municipality is a type of Canadian municipal government similar to and at the same municipal government level as a county, although the specific structure and servicing responsibilities may vary from place to place. Regional municipalities were formed in highly populated areas where it was considered more efficient to provide certain" and are still commonly referred to as counties A county is a land area of local government within a country. A county may have cities and towns within its area. "RCM"s also act as the local municipality in areas within their borders that are not organised as municipalities.
For a list of RCMs and equivalent territories, see List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec.
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