The Estrie is an administrative region of Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or 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....

 that overlaps mostly (not entirely) the Eastern Townships

Eastern Townships

The Eastern Townships is a tourist region and a former administrative region in south-eastern Quebec, lying between the former seigneuries south of the Saint Lawrence River and the United States border. Its northern boundary roughly followed Logan's Line, the geologic boundary between the flat,...

. Estrie, a French neologism, was coined as a derivative of est, "east."

The region has a land area of 10,209.4 km² (3,941.87 sq mi) and a 2006 census

Statistics Canada

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 population of 298,779 inhabitants. Its largest population centre is the city of Sherbrooke. Estrie also has a large selection of natural parks.

Subdivisions

Regional County Municipalities

• Coaticook Regional County Municipality, Quebec
  Coaticook Regional County Municipality, Quebec
  Coaticook is a regional county municipality in southeastern Quebec, Canada. The regional county municipality seat is Coaticook.-History:On September 3, 1783, as a result of the signing of the Treaty of Paris the American Revolutionary War ended with Great Britain...
  
  
• Le Granit Regional County Municipality, Quebec
  Le Granit Regional County Municipality, Quebec
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• Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, Quebec
  Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, Quebec
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• Le Val-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, Quebec
  Le Val-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, Quebec
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• Les Sources Regional County Municipality, Quebec
  Les Sources Regional County Municipality, Quebec
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• Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality, Quebec
  Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality, Quebec
  Memphrémagog is a Quebec Regional County Municipality in Canada.-History:After the signing of the Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783, the American Revolutionary War ended with the establishment of the state of Vermont. The border of Upper Canada was then defined at approximately 45 degrees north...
  
  

Independent City

• Sherbrooke

Demographics

• Population: 307,388 (2009)
• Area: 10195 square kilometres (3,936.3 sq mi)
• Density: 30.2 PD/km2

External links

• Portail régional de l'Estrie Official website
• Tourism Eastern Townships
• ESTRIEPLUS.COM Web Portal for Estrie