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{{Infobox settlement
<!-- See Template:Infobox settlement for additional fields and descriptions -->| name               = Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax
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| settlement_type    = [[Municipality (Quebec)|Municipality]]
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| image_map          = Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax Quebec location diagram.png
| map_caption        = Location within L'Érable RCM.
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in southern Quebec.
| coordinates        = {{coord|46|09|N|71|43|W|region:CA-QC|display=inline,title}}
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| subdivision_name2  = [[Centre-du-Québec]]
| subdivision_type3  = [[Regional county municipality|RCM]]
| subdivision_name3  = [[L'Érable Regional County Municipality|L'Érable]]
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| established_title1 = Constituted
| established_date1  = December 17, 1997
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| leader_title       = Mayor
| leader_name        = Marc Nadeau
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| area_total_km2     = 92.30
| area_land_km2      = 92.13
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| population_total   = 595
| population_as_of   = 2021
| population_density_km2 = 6.5
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| population_blank1_title = Pop&nbsp;<small>2016-2021</small>
| population_blank1  = {{decrease}} 2.8%
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| population_blank2_title = Dwellings
| population_blank2  = 258
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| timezone           = [[Eastern Time Zone|EST]]
| utc_offset         = −5
| timezone_DST       = [[Eastern Daylight Time|EDT]]
| utc_offset_DST     = −4
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| postal_code        = [[List of G postal codes of Canada|G0P 1L0]]
| area_code          = [[Area code 819|819]]
| blank_name         = Highways
| blank_info         = {{jct|state=QC|QC|165}}
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| website            = {{URL|www.saintesophiedhalifax.com|www.saintesophie<br>dhalifax.com}}
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'''Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax''' is a [[municipality (Quebec)|municipality]] in the [[Centre-du-Québec]] [[Quebec region|region]] of the [[Provinces and territories of Canada|province]] of [[Quebec]] in [[Canada]].
Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax was constituted by the December 17, 1997 amalgamation of the municipality of Sainte-Sophie and the township municipality of Halifax-Nord.
According to the [[Commission de toponymie du Québec]], the municipality got its name from the work of a Parish priest named Abbot Charles Trudell, in honor of [[Sophia of Rome|Saint Sophia]]. Originally, Sainte-Sophie was its own entity, which split from Halifax du Nord in 1937. Halifax du Nord & Sainte-Sophie reunited in 1997, thus reforming Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax.<ref name="Toponomy commission of Quebec">{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=Hagia Sophia of Halifax |url=https://toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/ct/ToposWeb/fiche.aspx?no_seq=337779 |website=Quebec.ca |publisher=Quebecois Toponymy Commission |access-date=12 December 2023}}</ref>
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== Geography ==
Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax is about 10km southeast of [[Plessisville, Quebec]]
. It is accessible via [[Quebec Route 165]].
==References==
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<ref name="cp2021">{{cite web | url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&SearchText=Sainte-Sophie&GENDERlist=1&STATISTIClist=1&DGUIDlist=2021A00052432023 | title=Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax, Municipalité (MÉ) &#91;Census subdivision&#93;, Quebec | date=9 February 2022 }}</ref>
<ref name="mamrot">{{mamrot |type=municipalite |32023}}</ref>
<ref name="toponymie">{{toponymie |337779}}</ref>
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{{Geographic location
| Northwest =
| North = [[Plessisville, Quebec|Plessisville]]
| Northeast = [[Saint-Pierre-Baptiste, Quebec|Saint-Pierre-Baptiste]]
| West = [[Princeville, Quebec|Princeville]]
| Centre = Sainte-Sophie-d'Halifax
| East =
| Southwest = [[Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska, Quebec|Saint-Norbert-d'Arthabaska]]
| South =
| Southeast = [[Saint-Ferdinand, Quebec|Saint-Ferdinand]]
}}
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