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Regional municipalities are sometimes referred to as "upper tier" municipalities.

Regions tend to be an agglomeration of highly urbanized towns and cities, whereas counties tend to be more rural in nature.

In Ontario, regional municipalities provide many core services to cities, towns, townships and villages within their borders; for example, most provide police protection, and many handle waste management and public transit. Similar to counties, they also provide infrastructure for (at least some) roads, sewers, and bridges; and also handle judicial and social services.

In Quebec, regional county municipalities ( FrenchFrench le francais la langue francaise is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered only by Spanish and Portuguese. French is the 11th most spoken language in the world, spoken by about 77 million people (called Francophones) as a mother to, municipalités régionales de comté) has been the 'county' level of government for the entire province since the early 1990sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s Years: Events and trends Computers, technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other techn.

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