A Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region inside Quebec, Canada is distinguished by its physical beauty, especially the Fjord du Saguenay, the estuary of the Saguenay River, stretching through great deal of the area. Ranging on top 104,000 klick², these are, fallowing a Nord-du-Québec and Côte-Nord regions, the third big of Quebec regions in area.

This region is bathed by ii major watercourses, a Lac Saint-Jean and the Saguenay River, both of which mark its landscape deeply & keep around been a independent causes of its development within history. These are too irrigated by many more big watercourses. Bordered by forests & mountainous massifs, the region is a fertile enclave in the Canadian Shield. Two a scenery & a ethnic web sites & activities of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean attract tourer yearly. Lac Saint-Jean itself occurs as popular destination for residents of the extra urban regions of Quebec to escape to in the summertime.

A beauty of the region may be seen in the 1991 film Black Robe, directed by Bruce Beresford.

Population
A population of the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region is 6,8 % of Quebec people, concentrated inside iii big bunch: Ville de Saguenay (natural of the merging of the cities of La Baie, Chicoutimi, Jonquière and a few little aglomerations) (pop. 148,179), Alma (pop. 30,126) & Roberval (pop. 10,906) - Saint-Félicien - Dolbeau-Mistassini (pop. 36,407). A big cash settlement (Ville first state Saguenay) is placed slightly west of the fjord, mostly south of the flow of any stream.

Ensuing a Saguenay municipal reorganization around 2002, the area today numbers 49 municipalities, sorted within quadruplet municipalités regionales diamond state comté (MRCs): MRC du Fjord-du-Saguenay (pop. 19,929), MRC Lac-Saint-Jean-Est (pop. 53,346), MRC Domaine-du-Roy (pop. 32,089), MRC Maria-Chapdelaine (pop. 27,945), plus Ville de Saguenay (pop. 154,000), which is two the city & the MRC.

A territory too includes an indigenous community: a Montagnais of Lac-Saint-Jean (pop. 1,812), residing either in the reserve of Mashteuiatsh or among the rest of the people. Inside aggregate, the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean vicinity has a people of 289,121.

Sources: Government of Quebec, 2003; Numbers Canada, 2001 Survey