Les Appalaches Regional County Municipality

Les Appalaches
Les Appalaches
Regional county municipality
	Coordinates: 46°05′N 71°18′W / 46.083°N 71.300°W
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Thetford Mines
Settlements	List Cities; Disraeli; Thetford Mines; ; Municipalities; Adstock; Beaulac-Garthby; East Broughton; Irlande; Kinnear's Mills; Saint-Adrien-d'Irlande; Sainte-Clotilde-de-Beauce; Saint-Fortunat; Saint-Jacques-de-Leeds; Saint-Jean-de-Brébeuf; Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine; Saint-Julien; Saint-Pierre-de-Broughton; ; Parishes; Disraeli; Sacré-Coeur-de-Jésus; Sainte-Praxède; Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur-de-Wolfestown;
Government
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Ghislain Hamel
Area
• Total	1,987.10 km2 (767.22 sq mi)
• Land	1,912.49 km2 (738.42 sq mi)
Population (2016)
• Total	42,346
• Density	22.1/km2 (57/sq mi)
• Change ; 2011-2016	1.8%
• Dwellings	22,714
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Website	www.mrc; desappalaches.ca

Les Appalaches (French pronunciation: [lez‿apalaʃ]) is a regional county municipality (RCM) in the Chaudière-Appalaches region in southeastern Quebec, Canada. It was established in 1982 from parts of the historic counties of Beauce, Frontenac, Mégantic, and Wolfe. The county seat and largest city is Thetford Mines.

The name of the RCM is linked to its location in the Appalachian Mountains with Mounts Adstock, Caribou, Oak, and Saint-Adrien being the highest. Until 2008, it was known as L'Amiante Regional County Municipality, because of the importance of asbestos mining in the region (amiante is French for "asbestos").