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Saint-Flavien
Saint-Flavien
Municipality
	Motto(s): Générosité et Solidarité (French); "Generosity and Solidarity"
	Location within Lotbinière RCM
	Saint-Flavien Location in southern Quebec
	Coordinates: 46°31′N 71°36′W / 46.517°N 71.600°W
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Chaudière-Appalaches
RCM	Lotbinière
Constituted	December 29, 1999
Government
• Mayor	Normand Côté
• Federal riding	Lévis—Lotbinière
• Prov. riding	Lotbinière-Frontenac
Area
• Total	65.80 km2 (25.41 sq mi)
• Land	66.16 km2 (25.54 sq mi)
	There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources
Population (2021)
• Total	1,619
• Density	24.5/km2 (63/sq mi)
• Pop 2016-2021	0.1%
• Dwellings	735
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	G0S 2M0
Area code(s)	418 and 581
Highways ; A-20	; R-271
Website	www.st-flavien.com

Saint-Flavien (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ flavjɛ̃]) is a municipality in the Lotbinière Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and had a population is 1,619 as of 2021.^[4] The municipality, constituted in 1999, covers an area of 66 km², with a population density of 25.

It is named after Archbishop Pierre-Flavien Turgeon and was created from the merger of the parish and the village of the same name.

History

Although the new constitution dates from 1999as a result of the merger of the Parish and of the Village of Saint-Flavien, the area has been settled since 1800. The original territory of Saint-Flavien, part of the seigneurie of Sainte-Croix, was split several times for the creation of the communities of Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Cœur-d'Issoudun (1903), Dosquet (1912), the Village of Saint-Flavien (1912), Saint-Janvier-de-Joly (1928), and Laurier-Station (1951).