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    Quebec is one of Canada's thirteen provinces located in eastern Canada. It is bordered by Ontario to the west, Hudson Bay to the north, Newfoundland and Labrador to the east, New Brunswick to the southeast, and the US states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York to the south. French is the sole official language although there are also English-speaking communities concentrated in the west of Montreal and some outlying regions. Quebec has a population size second only to Ontario and has had independence debates play a large role in its politics, with two referendums on sovereignty voted down in 1980 and 1995. The province has substantial natural resources and knowledge economy sectors that have made it an economically influential province in Canada

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    Quebec is one of Canada's thirteen provinces located in eastern Canada. It is bordered by Ontario to the west, Hudson Bay to the north, Newfoundland and Labrador to the east, New Brunswick to the southeast, and the US states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York to the south. French is the sole official language although there are also English-speaking communities concentrated in the west of Montreal and some outlying regions. Quebec has a population size second only to Ontario and has had independence debates play a large role in its politics, with two referendums on sovereignty voted down in 1980 and 1995. The province has substantial natural resources and knowledge economy sectors that have made it an economically influential province in Canada

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    Quebec is one of Canada's thirteen provinces located in eastern Canada. It is bordered by Ontario to the west, Hudson Bay to the north, Newfoundland and Labrador to the east, New Brunswick to the southeast, and the US states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York to the south. French is the sole official language although there are also English-speaking communities concentrated in the west of Montreal and some outlying regions. Quebec has a population size second only to Ontario and has had independence debates play a large role in its politics, with two referendums on sovereignty voted down in 1980 and 1995. The province has substantial natural resources and knowledge economy sectors that have made it an economically influential province in Canada

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    Quebec is one of Canada's thirteen provinces located in eastern Canada. It is bordered by Ontario to the west, Hudson Bay to the north, Newfoundland and Labrador to the east, New Brunswick to the southeast, and the US states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York to the south. French is the sole official language although there are also English-speaking communities concentrated in the west of Montreal and some outlying regions. Quebec has a population size second only to Ontario and has had independence debates play a large role in its politics, with two referendums on sovereignty voted down in 1980 and 1995. The province has substantial natural resources and knowledge economy sectors that have made it an economically influential province in Canada

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    Quebec (/k(w)ɪˈbɛk/ ( listen);[8] French: Québec [kebɛk] ( listen))[9] is one of the thirteen provinces

    and territories of Canada. It is bordered to the west by the province of Ontario and the bodies of
    water James Bay and Hudson Bay; to the north by Hudson Straitand Ungava Bay; to the east by
    the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador; and to the south by the
    province of New Brunswick and the U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York.
    It also shares maritime borderswith Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia. Quebec is
    Canada's largest province by area and its second-largest administrative division; only the territory
    of Nunavut is larger. It is historically and politically considered to be part of Central Canada(with
    Ontario).
    Quebec is the second-most populous province of Canada, after Ontario.[10] It is the only one to have
    a predominantly French-speaking population, with French as the sole provincial official language.
    Most inhabitants live in urban areas near the Saint Lawrence River between Montreal and Quebec
    City, the capital. Approximately half of Quebec residents live in the Greater Montreal Area, including
    the Island of Montreal. English-speaking communities and English-language institutions are
    concentrated in the west of the island of Montreal but are also significantly present in
    the Outaouais, Eastern Townships, and Gaspé regions. The Nord-du-Québec region, occupying the
    northern half of the province, is sparsely populated and inhabited primarily by Aboriginal
    peoples.[11]The climate around the major cities is four-season continental with cold and snowy winters
    combined with warm to hot humid summers, but further north long winter seasons dominate and as
    a result the northern areas of the province are marked by tundraconditions.[12] Even in central
    Quebec, at comparatively southerly latitudes, winters are severe in inland areas.
    Quebec independence debates have played a large role in the politics of the province. Parti
    Québécois governments held referendums on sovereignty in 1980 and 1995; both were voted down
    by voters, the latter defeated by a very narrow margin.[13] In 2006, the House of Commons of
    Canada passed a symbolic motion recognizing the "Québécois as a nation within a united
    Canada."[14][15]
    While the province's substantial natural resources have long been the mainstay of its economy,
    sectors of the knowledge economysuch as aerospace, information and communication
    technologies, biotechnology, and the pharmaceutical industry also play leading roles. These many
    industries have all contributed to helping Quebec become an economically influential province within
    Canada, second only to Ontario in economic output.[16]

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