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Montreal , officially Montréal, is the  most populous municipality  in  the Canadian province  of  Quebec  and the  second-most populous municipality  in Canada .  Originally called  Ville-Marie , or "City of Mary," it is named after  Mount Royal , the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city.  The city is centered on the  Island of Montreal , which took its name from the same source as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is  Île Bizard .  It has a distinct four-season  continental   climate  with warm to hot summers and cold, snowy winters. In 2016, the city had a population of 1,704,694, with a population of 1,942,044 in the  urban agglomeration , including all of the other  municipalities  on the Island of Montreal .    The broader  metropolitan area  had a population of 4,098,927.     French  is the city's official language and is the language spoken at home by 49.8% of the population of the city, followed by  Engli

Quebec City , officially  Québec , is the capital of the  Canadian  province of  Quebec .  The city had an estimated population of 531,902 in July 2016 (an increase of 3.0% from 2011), and the  metropolitan area  had a population of 800,296 in July 2016 (an increase of 4.3% from 2011).    It is the second largest city in Quebec after  Montreal , and the seventh  largest metropolitan area  and eleventh  largest city  in Canada. The  Algonquian people  had originally named the area  Kébec , an  Algonquin  word meaning "where the river narrows," because the  Saint Lawrence River  narrows proximate to the  promontory of Quebec  and its  Cape Diamant .  Explorer  Samuel de Champlain  founded a French settlement here in 1608, and adopted the Algonquin name.  Quebec City is one of the  oldest European cities  in North America. The  ramparts  surrounding  Old Quebec  are the only fortified  city walls  remaining in the Americas north of  Mexico .  This area was declar