Ajax
Ajax is a town in Durham Region, midway between Oshawa and Toronto. Split from Pickering Township in 1941 to house munitions factory Defence Industries Limited, it is now a growing Greater Toronto Area suburb with nearly 127,000 people.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Ajax GO Station and Lakeridge Health Ajax and Pickering.
Ajax Public Library
Library
Ajax Public Library is a public library system in Ajax, Ontario, Canada.
Ajax
- Categories: town, lower-tier municipality of Ontario, and locality
- Location: Ajax, Durham, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude
43.8505° or 43° 51′ 2″ north
Longitude
-79.0209° or 79° 1′ 15″ west
Population
120,000
Elevation
97 metres (318 feet)
UN/LOCODE
CA AJX
Open location code
87M2VX2H+6J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Ajax” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ajax, Ontario”
- Afrikaans: “Ajax”
- Albanian: “Ajax”
- Arabic: “أجاكس”
- Asturian: “Ajax”
- Atikamekw: “Ajax”
- Belarusian: “Эйджакс”
- Bengali: “অ্যাজাক্স”
- Bulgarian: “Ейджакс”
- Catalan: “Ajax”
- Cebuano: “Ajax”
- Chinese: “亞積士”
- Chinese: “埃傑克斯”
- Chinese: “埃杰克斯”
- Czech: “Ajax”
- Danish: “Ajax”
- Dutch: “Ajax”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اجاكس”
- Finnish: “Ajax”
- French: “Ajax”
- German: “Ajax”
- Greek: “Έιτζαξ”
- Gujarati: “એજેક્સ”
- Hindi: “एजाक्स”
- Indonesian: “Ajax”
- Irish: “Ajax”
- Italian: “Ajax”
- Japanese: “エイジャックス”
- Kannada: “ಅಜಾಕ್ಸ್”
- Korean: “에이잭스”
- Korean: “에이젝스”
- Latvian: “Adžaksa”
- Latvian: “Eidžeksa”
- Lithuanian: “Adžaksas”
- Macedonian: “Ејџакс”
- Malay: “Ajax”
- Marathi: “एजाक्स”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ajax”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ajax”
- Norwegian: “Ajax”
- Persian: “اجاکس، انتاریو”
- Persian: “اجاکس”
- Polish: “Ajax (Kanada)”
- Polish: “Ajax”
- Portuguese: “Ajax”
- Romanian: “Ajax, Ontario”
- Romanian: “Ajax”
- Russian: “Эйджакс”
- Serbian: “Ајакс”
- Serbian: “Ејџакс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ajax”
- Sinhala: “ඒජක්ස්”
- Slovak: “Ajax”
- Spanish: “Ajax”
- Swahili: “Ajax, Ontario”
- Swahili: “Ajax”
- Swedish: “Ajax, Ontario”
- Swedish: “Ajax”
- Tamil: “அஜாஸ்”
- Telugu: “అజాక్స్”
- Thai: “อแจค”
- Turkish: “Ajax, Ontario”
- Turkish: “Ajax”
- Ukrainian: “Аджакс”
- Ukrainian: “Ейджакс”
- Urdu: “اجاز”
- Urdu: “ایجیکس، اونٹاریو”
- Vietnamese: “Ajax”
- “ma tomo Esa”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Pickering Beach and Pickering Village.
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