Montreal is the most crowded region in the region of Quebec and the second-most crowded in Canada. Initially called Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary," it is accepted to be named after Mount Royal, however there is some civil argument about this. The city has an unmistakable four-season mainland atmosphere, with warm-to-hot summers and frosty, cold winters. In 2016, Montreal had a populace of 1,704,694. Montreal's metropolitan zone had a populace of 4,098,927 and a populace of 1,958,257 in the urban agglomeration, with the majority of the districts on the Island of Montreal included. Legitimately a French-talking city, 60.5% of Montrealers communicate in French at home, 21.2% communicate in English and 19.8% talk not one or the other. Montreal is a standout amongst the most bilingual urban communities in Quebec and Canada, with 56% of the populace ready to talk both authority dialects. Montreal is the second-biggest basically French-talking city on the planet after Paris

 

In the 2017 release of their Best Student Cities positioning, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) positioned Montreal as the world's best city to think about abroad. With 170,000 understudies enlisted in its 11 colleges, the Greater Montreal locale has the most elevated number of college understudies per capita among every single metropolitan range in North America, including Boston; the scholarly capital of the U.S. Montreal has facilitated various worldwide gatherings and occasions all through its history, including the 1967 International and Universal Exposition and the 1976 Summer Olympic Games. Presently, the city has the Canadian Grand Prix of Formula One, the Montreal International Jazz Festival and the Just for Laughs celebration. In 2012, Montreal was positioned as a Beta+ world city.