Laval

North of Montreal, in southwest Quebec, is the Canadian city of Laval. With a population of 422,993 in 2016, it is the largest suburb of Montreal, the third-largest city in the province after Montreal and Quebec City, and one of the largest cities in Canada by population.

The Rivière des Mille Îles and the Rivière des Prairies physically divide Laval from the mainland to the north and the Island of Montreal to the south. Both the Îles Laval and the entirety of Île Jésus are occupied by Laval.

Language diversity is present in Laval. For 60.8 percent of people, French was their only mother tongue, and 65.2 percent of them said they spoke it at home the most. English (7.05%), Arabic (5.6%), Italian (4.2%), Greek (3.5%), Spanish (2.9%), Armenian (1.7%), Creoles (1.6%), Romanian (1.3%), and Portuguese were the next most popular mother tongues (1.3% ).

Laval has its own administrative area in Quebec, which is the 13th of the province's 17 administrative regions. It also has a region that corresponds to a regional county municipality (TE) and a census division (CD) with the geographic designation 65. It also makes of the Laval judicial district.

Population: 422,993