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Montreal (;〔 is the local English pronunciation; in the rest of Canada, it tends to be or , but the British and American pronunciation is ..〕 ,〔It is most common to omit the acute accent in English-language usage (Montreal), unless using a proper name where the context requires the use of the accent (e.g., ''Université de Montréal'', ''Le Journal de Montréal'', as compared to the ''Montreal Gazette''), and to keep the accent in French-language usage (Montréal). This is also the approach favoured by ''The Canadian Press Style Book'' (ISBN 0-920009-32-8, at p. 234) and ''The Globe and Mail Style Book'' (ISBN 0-7710-5685-0, at p. 249). According to ''The Canadian Style'' (ISBN 1-55002-276-8, at pp. 263–4), the official style guide of the government of Canada, the name of the city is to be written with an accent in all government materials.〕 ) is a city in the Canadian province of Quebec. It is the largest city in the province, the second-largest in Canada and the 9th-largest in North America. Originally called ''Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary",〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Old Montréal / Centuries of History )〕 it is named after Mount Royal,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mount Royal Park – Montreal's Mount Royal Park or Parc du Mont-Royal )〕 the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. The city is on the Island of Montreal, which took its name from the same source as the city,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Island of Montreal )〕 and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. In 2011 the city had a population of 1,649,519.〔 Montreal's metropolitan area (CMA) (land area ) had a population of 3,824,221〔 and a population of 1,886,481 in the urban agglomeration, all of the municipalities on the Island of Montreal included.〔 The 2014 estimate of the population of the metropolitan area of Montreal is 4.1 million. French is the city's official language〔Chapter 1, article 1, 〕〔Chapter 1, article 1, (【引用サイトリンク】 title=Charter of Ville de Montréal )〕 and is the language spoken at home by 56.9% of the population of the city, followed by English at 18.6% and 19.8% other languages (in the 2006 census).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Population by language spoken most often at home and age groups, 2006 counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities) with 5,000-plus population – 20% sample data )〕 In the larger Montreal Census Metropolitan Area, 67.9% of the population speaks French at home, compared to 16.5% who speak English. Montreal is one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada with 56% of the population able to speak both English and French. Montreal is the second largest primarily French-speaking city in the world, after Paris.〔(''Discovering Canada'' ) (official Canadian citizenship test study guide)〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.akcanada.com/lic_montreal.cfm )〕〔 Quote: Montreal "is second only to Paris as the largest primarily French-speaking city in the world".〕 〔Kinshasa and Abidjan are sometimes said to rank ahead of Montreal as francophone cities, since they have larger populations and are in countries with French as the sole official language. However, French is uncommon as a mother tongue there. According to Ethnologue, there were 17,500 mother-tongue speakers of French in the Ivory Coast as of 1988. () Approximately 10% of the population of Congo-Kinshasa knows French to some extent. ()〕 Montreal was named a UNESCO City of Design. Historically the commercial capital of Canada, it was surpassed in population and economic strength by Toronto in the 1970s. It remains an important centre of commerce, aerospace, finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, design, culture, tourism, gaming, film and world affairs. In August 2015 the Economist Intelligence Unit's Global Liveability Ranking placed Montreal 14th out of 140 cities.〔 〕 In 2009, Montreal was named North America's leading host city for international association events, according to the 2009 preliminary rankings of the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Montréal 2025 | News | Montréal, top international convention host city in North America )〕 In 2015, QS World University Rankings ranked Montreal the 8th-best place in the world to be a university student.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=QS Best Student Cities 2015 )〕 == Etymology == Originally called ''Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary",〔 it is named after Mount Royal,〔 the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. According to one theory, the name derives from ''mont Réal'', as it was spelled in Middle French (''Mont Royal'' in modern French), but Cartier's 1535 diary entry, naming the mountain, refers to "le mont Royal". Another argument, mentioned by the Government of Canada on its web site concerning Canadian place names, is that the name was adopted as it is written nowadays because an early map of 1556 used the Italian name of the mountain, "Monte Real". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Montreal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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