Quebec
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Quebec | |
|---|---|
 Flag | |
.svg) | |
| Capital | Montréal |
| Official languages | French |
| Demonym(s) | Québecois (m.) Québecoise (f.) |
| Legislature | National Assembly of Québec |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,542,056.14 km2 (595,391.20 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• 2022 estimate | 8,751,352 |
| HDI | 0.972 very high |
| Time zone | UTC-5 |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 |
Quebec officially Quebec Federal Democratique et Libre is a sovereign country located in North America who gained independence from Canada on October 30, 1995 following a landslide victory of independentism in the referendum convoked then. It is the largest French-speaking country in America as well as one of the largest in the world. Since the independence, Quebec reached a superb economic and social development, dodgering a crisis in the first lustrum of 1990s.
Geography
Climate
| Climate data for Marrakech, Morocco (1961-1990) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 18.3 (64.9) |
21.8 (71.2) |
25.9 (78.6) |
28.3 (82.9) |
31.1 (88.0) |
34.6 (94.3) |
36.9 (98.4) |
36.9 (98.4) |
32.7 (90.9) |
28.9 (84.0) |
22.2 (72.0) |
18.7 (65.7) |
28.0 (82.4) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 12.9 (55.2) |
14.6 (58.3) |
18.6 (65.5) |
19.2 (66.6) |
19.9 (67.8) |
21.2 (70.2) |
22.5 (72.5) |
20.1 (68.2) |
18.2 (64.8) |
17.7 (63.9) |
16.4 (61.5) |
15.2 (59.4) |
18.0 (64.5) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 89.8 (3.54) |
99.9 (3.93) |
99.8 (3.93) |
88.8 (3.50) |
73.7 (2.90) |
64.5 (2.54) |
71.2 (2.80) |
83.4 (3.28) |
95.9 (3.78) |
83.9 (3.30) |
80.6 (3.17) |
71.4 (2.81) |
1,002.9 (39.48) |