Quebec City ; French: Ville de Québec; officially Québec) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. The city had a population estimate of 531,902 on July 2016, ( Increase of 3.0% from 2011 to 2016 ) and the metropolitan area had a population of 800,296 on July 2016, ( Increase of 4.3% from 2011 to 2016 ) making it Canada's seventh-largest metropolitan area and Quebec's second-largest city after Montreal.