Supralocal Level
Local municipalities are organized into three kinds of supralocal units: regional county municipalities or RCMs (municipalités régionales de comté, MRC), metropolitan communities or CMs ("communautés métropolitaines") and regional government (administration régionale).
Most municipalities belong to an RCM. However, some municipalities, mostly urban, northern or Aboriginal, do not.
While CMs may overlap with various administrative regions, RCMs are each wholly contained within a single region, as is the sole regional government, the Kativik Regional Government. RCMs and CMs may also overlap.
In addition to local municipalities, unorganized territories or TNOs (territoires non organisés) may also fall under the jurisdiction of an RCM or of the Kativik Regional Government. Although they are not municipalities, TNOs will be considered "local municipal units" for the purposes of the discussion below.
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