Montreal (Listeni/ˌmʌntriːˈɒl/;[11] French: Montréal,[12] pronounced [ˈmõʁeal] ( listen)) is a city in the Canadian province of Quebec. It is the largest city in the province, the second-largest in Canada and the 9th-largest in North America. Originally called Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary",[13] it is named after Mount Royal,[14] the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. The city is on the Island of Montreal, which took its name from the same source as the city,[15][16] and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard.In 2011 the city had a population of 1,649,519.[6] Montreal's metropolitan area (CMA) (land area 4,259 square kilometres (1,644 sq mi)) had a population of 3,824,221[8] and a population of 1,886,481 in the urban agglomeration, all of the municipalities on the Island of Montreal included.[17] Current 2014 estimates of the CMA place the metropolitan area of Montreal at 4.1 million.
