Regional County Municipality - RCM (Municipalité régionale de comté - MRC)

The regional county municipality (RCM) is an administrative entity used in the Canadian province of Quebec to designate county-like political and geographic units. In most cases, they are also census divisions. RCM are a supralocal type of "Regional Municipality" and are still commonly referred to as counties. This double level of competence system of municipal government was rearranged in 1979, with the government policy of reorganization of Quebec counties.