Jamésie () is a

territory equivalent to a regional county municipality An equivalent territory (, ), formally known as territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (), is a territorial unit used by Statistics Canada and the Institut de la statistique du Québec. Quebec is divided into 87 regional county m ...

(TE) of

Nord-du-Québec Nord-du-Québec (; ) is the largest, but the least populous, of the seventeen administrative regions of Quebec, Canada. Spread over nearly 14 degrees of latitude, north of the 49th parallel, the region covers on the Labrador Peninsula, making ...

, Canada. Its geographical code is 991 and together with Kativik TE and Eeyou Istchee TE it forms the administrative région and

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(CD) of

It is located to the east of

James Bay James Bay (, ; ) is a large body of water located on the southern end of Hudson Bay in Canada. It borders the provinces of Quebec and Ontario, and is politically part of Nunavut. Its largest island is Akimiski Island. Numerous waterways of the ...

, after which the territory is named. It has a land area of , or slightly larger than

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) and a

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population of 13,941 inhabitants.

Chibougamau Chibougamau () is the largest town in Nord-du-Québec, central Quebec, Canada. Located on Lake Gilman, it has a population of 7,233 people (2021 Canadian census). Chibougamau is surrounded by, but not part of, the local municipality of Eeyou ...

is the largest community in both Jamésie TE and Nord-du-Québec. The original 2006 census land area was reduced by about 1.74 percent and the population was reduced by 47.25 percent by the creation and departure of the Eeyou Istchee TE in 2007. Further administration changes came under the terms of the Agreement on Governance in the Eeyou Istchee James Bay Territory of July 24, 2012, when the local municipality of

Baie-James The Baie-James () was a List of former municipalities in Quebec, former municipality in northern Quebec, Canada, which existed from 1971 to 2012. Located to the east of James Bay, Baie-James covered of land, making it the largest incorporated ...

within Jamésie ceased to exist, and was replaced by the local municipality of Eeyou Istchee James Bay, which is specialized local municipality governed and managed jointly by the Cree of Eeyou Istchee TE and the non-Cree of Jamésie TE.

Subdivisions

The TE of Jamésie consists of: * the

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(M) of Eeyou Istchee James Bay, * the enclaved

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References

Nord-du-Québec Census Division, Quebec
Statistics Canada
Database
of the geographical code of Quebec.
Regional maps of municipal and RCM/TE boundaries from the Ministère des Affaires municipales et des RégionsMap of Baie-James / Jamésie

External links

Website of the Eeyou Istchee James Bay Regional Government

Grand Council of the Crees

Cree Tourism
Territories equivalent to a regional county municipality Eeyou Istchee (territory) {{Quebec-geo-stub