Southern Ontario - Cities

Cities

Southern Ontario is home to both Canada's largest city (Toronto) and the national capital city (Ottawa). Toronto is Canada's largest, and North America's fifth-largest, city. It has a population of 2,503,281, and a metropolitan population of over 6 million as of the 2011 census. Ottawa is Canada's fourth largest city and capital city. It is home to most federal government departments and the Parliament of Canada. It has a population of 883,391, and a metropolitan population of over 1.4 million.

Southern Ontario contains the only city in the nation where one can travel north to the contiguous United States. At Windsor, Ontario if one travels north they will reach Detroit, Michigan.

Southern Ontario communities have nine telephone area codes: 226, 249, 289, 343, 416, 519, 613, 647, 705, and 905. Two additional area codes 437 and 365 will be added in 2013.

Statistics Canada's measure of a "metro area", the Census Metropolitan Area (CMA), roughly bundles together population figures from the core municipality with those from "commuter" municipalities. Note: A city's Metropolitan area may actually be larger than its CMA. For example; Oshawa is part of the Greater Toronto Area, however it is considered its own CMA.

See also: Golden Horseshoe, Detroit–Windsor, and National Capital Region (Canada)
Southern Ontario Cities (not all metropolitan areas listed) 2011 2006 2001
Toronto CMA 5,583,064 5,113,149 4,682,897
Ottawa CMA 1,236,324 1,130,761 1,067,800
Hamilton CMA 721,053 692,911 662,401
Kitchener CMA 477,160 451,235 414,284
London CMA 474,786 457,720 435,600
St. Catharines–Niagara CMA 392,184 390,317 377,009
Oshawa CMA 356,177 330,594 296,298
Windsor CMA 319,246 323,342 307,877
Barrie CMA 187,013 177,061 148,480
Kingston CMA 159,561 152,358 146,838
Guelph CMA 141,097 127,009 117,344
Brantford CMA 135,501 124,607 118,086
Peterborough CMA 118,975 116,570 110,876

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