Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke is a city in southern Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. The city is coextensive with a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality and census division of the same name. It is the primary economic, political, cultural and institutional centre of Estrie and acquired the nickname Queen of the Eastern Townships at the beginning of the twentieth century. Eight educational institutions in the city teach about 40,000 students. The 2021 census counted 172,950 residents, making Sherbrooke the sixth-largest city in the province and the thirtieth-largest in Canada, within a metropolitan area of 227,398 inhabitants.