Basse-Côte-Nord Territory (French: Territoire de la Basse-Côte-Nord, meaning "lower north shore") was a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) in eastern Quebec

Quebec

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, Canada

Canada

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. The territory, whose geographical code was 982, was formed in 2002 when it separated from the Minganie Regional County Municipality

Minganie Regional County Municipality, Quebec

Minganie is a regional county municipality of Quebec in Canada. The regional seat is Havre-Saint-Pierre. Anticosti Island is included within this region. It has a land area of ....

 and was superseded by Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality

Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality, Quebec

Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent is a Regional county municipality in the Côte-Nord region of far-eastern Quebec, Canada. It includes all the communities along the Gulf of Saint Lawrence between the Natashquan River and the Newfoundland and Labrador border...

 that was formed in July 2010.

Together with Minganie RCM, Basse-Côte-Nord formed the census division of Minganie-Basse-Côte-Nord

Minganie-Basse-Côte-Nord

Minganie-Basse-Côte-Nord is a census division in the Canadian province of Quebec, consisting of the regional county municipality of Minganie and the Basse-Côte-Nord territory. The division had a population of 11,895 in the Canada 2006 Census....

, whose geographical code is 98.

Basse-Côte-Nord had a land area of 5803.26 square kilometres (2,240.7 sq mi) and a 2006 census

Canada 2006 Census

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 population of 5,505 inhabitants. It included all the communities along the Gulf of Saint Lawrence

Gulf of Saint Lawrence

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 between the Natashquan River

Natashquan River

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 and the Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador

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 border, but it had no regional administration.

Basse-Côte-Nord consisted of the following subdivisions, with their codes in parentheses:

• Municipality of Blanc-Sablon
  Blanc-Sablon, Quebec
  Blanc-Sablon, Quebec is the easternmost community in the province of Quebec, Canada, between the municipalities of Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent and L'Anse-au-Clair, in Labrador...
  
   (98005)
• Municipality of Bonne-Espérance
  Bonne-Espérance, Quebec
  Bonne-Espérance is a municipality in the Côte-Nord region of the province of Quebec in Canada.The municipality is made up of the three fishing villages of Rivière-Saint-Paul , Middle Bay, and Vieux-Fort , and was incorporated as a municipality on January 1, 1990...
  
   (98010)
• Municipality of Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent
  Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent, Quebec
  Côte-Nord-du-Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent is a municipality in the Côte-Nord region of the province of Quebec in Canada. The municipality consists of two non-contiguous areas, both along the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. The larger main part stretches from the Natashquan River to the Big Mecatina...
  
   (98015)
• Municipality of Gros-Mécatina
  Gros-Mécatina, Quebec
  The Municipality of Gros-Mécatina is on the Lower North Shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, near the border with Labrador in Quebec, Canada. Located near excellent crab, lobster, and scallop fishing grounds, it is dependant on the fishing business, including a fish processing factory that...
  
   (98014)
• Municipality of Saint-Augustin (98012)
• Indian reserve of La Romaine
  La Romaine, Quebec
  La Romaine, also known as Unamenshipit in Innu-aimun, is an Innu First Nations reserve in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, Canada, at the mouth of the Olomane River on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. It belongs to the Innu band of Unamen Shipu...
  
   (98804)
• Indian settlement of Pakuashipi
  Pakuashipi, Quebec
  Pakuashipi is an Innu community in the Canadian province of Quebec, located on the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in the Côte-Nord region. It is on the western shore of the mouth of the Saint-Augustin River, opposite the settlement of Saint-Augustin...
  
  (98802), located within the legal territory of Saint-Augustin.

External links

• Tourism Lower North Shore (English)
• Tourisme Basse-Côte-Nord (Français)
• Blanc-Sablon Tourism
• Basse-Côte-Nord Local website
• The Lower North Shore Community Web Site
• database of municipalities on the website of the Institut de la Statistique du Québec.