Rivière-du-Loup
Regional county municipality
Coordinates: 47°54′N 69°20′W / 47.900°N 69.333°W / 47.900; -69.333[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Bas-Saint-Laurent
Effective	January 1, 1982
County seat	Rivière-du-Loup
Government [2]
• Type	Prefecture
• Prefect	Michel Lagacé
Area [2][3]
• Total	1,768.20 km2 (682.71 sq mi)
• Land	1,277.15 km2 (493.11 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[3]
• Total	33,958
• Density	26.6/km2 (69/sq mi)
• Change 2011-2016	1.2%
• Dwellings	17,019
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Website	www.riviereduloup.ca
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Rivière-du-Loup is a regional county municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec, Canada. Its most important city is Rivière-du-Loup, which contains more than half of the population.

Major industries include pulp and paper, other wood products, peat products, mineral products and textiles.

The name comes from the French, "River of the Wolf".

There are 13 subdivisions and one native reserve within the RCM:^[2]

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:^[5]

• List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec