Côte-Nord (, ; ; land area ) is the second-largest administrative region by land area in Quebec, Canada, after Nord-du-Québec. It covers much of the northern shore of the Saint Lawrence River estuary and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence past Tadoussac. While most of the region is in the same time zone as the rest of Quebec, the far eastern portion east of the 63rd meridian, excluding the Minganie Regional County Municipality, is officially in the Atlantic Time Zone and does not observe daylight saving time. Population At the 2016 Canadian Census, the population amounted to 92,518, approximately 1.1% of the province's population, spread across 33 municipalities, various Indian reserves and a Naskapi reserved land. The towns of Baie-Comeau and Sept-Îles combined amount to a little more than half of the population of the region. Geography and economy Côte-Nord was created as an administrative region in 1966. Important landmarks of Côte-Nord include Anticosti Island, the Mingan Archipelago, and the Manicouagan Reservoir. A territorial dispute between Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador concerning the border between Côte-Nord and Labrador was set on 2 March 1927 by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The boundary was entrenched in the Canadian constitution upon Newfoundland joining confederation in 1949. While this border has not been formally accepted by the Quebec government, the Henri Dorion Commission (Commission d'étude sur l'intégrité du territoire du Québec) concluded in the early 1970s that Quebec no longer has a legal claim to Labrador. The region's economy is based on mining (mostly iron), lumbering, aluminum production, and tourism. Côte-Nord's fourteen hydroelectric dams, notably the Manicouagan-Outardes complex, supply Hydro-Québec with over 10,500 megawatts of power. Administrative divisions Regional county municipalities Caniapiscau Regional County Municipality La Haute-Côte-Nord Regional County Municipality Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality Manicouagan Regional County Municipality Minganie Regional County Municipality Sept-Rivières Regional County Municipality Indian reserves Essipit La Romaine Lac-John Maliotenam (part of Uashat-Maliotenam) Matimekosh Mingan Nutashkuan Pessamit Uashat (part of Uashat-Maliotenam) Naskapi reserved territory Kawawachikamach Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Côte-Nord region had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of -4.3% from its 2016 population of 92,518, making it the fastest-decreasing region of Québec. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. The median age is 46.4, as opposed to 41.6 for all of Canada. French was the mother