Québec is located in the northeastern part of North America, extending almost 2,000 kilometres (1,245 miles) from the United States border to the Boreal seas in the north. Ontario lies to the west, with New Brunswick and Newfoundland & Labrador to the east.

Québec is the largest Canadian province. It covers an area of some 1.7 million square kilometres (656,375 square miles), which is three times the size of France, five times bigger than Japan, and seven times the size of the United Kingdom.

Throughout its southern regions, Québec’s landscape is marked by the St. Lawrence River, one of the world’s major waterways.

Québec’s coastlines stretch for nearly 6,000 kilometres (3,730 miles), and comprise the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence, Ungava Bay, Hudson Bay and James Bay.

Québec is blessed with an amazing diversity of landscapes, including vast expanses of forest, taiga and tundra, dotted by more than a million lakes and thousands of rivers, totalling some 180,000 square kilometres (69,500 square miles)  of fresh water.

The highest peaks in Québec are Mont D’Iberville (1,622 metres or 5,322 feet), in the Torngat chain in the Nunavik region, and Mont Jacques-Cartier (1,268 metres or 4,160 feet), which crowns the Chic-Chocs range in the Gaspé peninsula.