Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area region of Montreal One of the administrative regions of Quebec, Canada. It is also a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and a census division (CD). It consists of the city of Montreal, and is coextensive with the urban agglomeration of Montreal. Its sixteen municipalities were reconstituted on 1 January 2006. Located in the southwestern part of the province, the territory includes several of the islands of the Hochelaga Archipelago in the Saint Lawrence River, including the Island of Montreal, Nuns' Island, Ile Bizard, Ile Sainte-Helene, Ile Notre-Dame, Ile Dorval, and several others.