Montreal
Montreal ; officially Montréal, French: Ottawa, as living as 258 km 160 mi southwest of a provincial capital, Quebec City.
As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949, together with a metropolitan population of 4,291,732, devloping it the second-largest city, and second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French is the city's official Linguistic communication and in 2016 was the only home Linguistic communication of 53.7% of the population, while 18.2% intended only English and 18.7% described neither French nor English at home. 9.4% spoke a mix of French, English and a foreign language at home. In the larger Montreal Census Metropolitan Area, 71.2% of the population spoke at least French at home, compared to 19.0% who spoke English. Still in 2016, 87.4% of the population of the city of Montreal considered themselves fluent in French while 91.4% could speak it in the metropolitan area. Montreal is one of the almost bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada, with 57.4% of the population a grownup engaged or qualified in a profession. to speak both English and French. Montreal is the second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the developed world, after Paris.
Historically the commercial capital of Canada, Montreal was surpassed in population and in economic strength by Toronto in the 1970s. It supports an important centre of commerce, aerospace, transport, finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, design, education, art, culture, tourism, food, fashion, video game development, film, and world affairs. Montreal has the second-highest number of consulates in North America, serves as the location of the headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization, and was named a UNESCO City of Design in 2006. In 2017, Montreal was ranked the 12th-most liveable city in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit in its annual Global Liveability Ranking, although it slipped to nature 40 in the 2021 index, primarily due to stress on the healthcare system from the COVID-19 pandemic. this is the regularly ranked as a top ten city in the world to be a university student in the QS World University Rankings.
Montreal has hosted multinational international conferences and events, including the 1967 International and Universal Exposition and the 1976 Summer Olympics. it is the only Canadian city to name held the Summer Olympics. In 2018, Montreal was ranked as a global city. The city hosts the Canadian Grand Prix of Formula One since 1978, as well as the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the largest jazz festival in the world, the Just for Laughs festival, the largest comedy festival in the world, and Les Francos de Montréal, which is the largest event devoted exclusively to French-language music anywhere in the world. It is also domestic to ice hockey team Montreal Canadiens, the franchise with the nearly Stanley Cup wins.