Montréal is de grootste stad van de provincie Québec en na Toronto de grootste stad van Canada. Op 1 januari 2006 woonden in Montréal naar schatting ongeveer 1.650.000 mensen. Groot Montréal had in 2008 een inwonertal van 3.763.715.

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Montreal.nl is a Dutch information site about the city Montreal in Canada

Montreal (French: Montréal), is the largest city in the Canadian province of Québec and the second-largest city in Canada. Montreal was the largest city in Canada until 1976 when it was surpassed in size by Toronto. Originally called Ville-Marie ('City of Mary'), the city takes its present name from Mont-Royal, the three-headed hill at the heart of the city, whose name was also initially given to the island on which the city is located,[8][9] or Mont Réal as it was spelled in Middle French,
(Mont Royal in present French).

The official language of Montreal is French as defined by the city's charter. Montreal is the second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the world, after Paris. As of the 2006 Canadian Census, 1,620,693 people resided in the city of Montreal proper, ranking it the 2nd largest city in Canada and 6th overall in North America. The population of the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area (also known as Greater Montreal) was 3,635,571 at the same 2006 census. In the census metropolitan area, French is the language most spoken at home by 70.5% of the population (as of 2006 census).