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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Magnolia677, CC BY 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ajax GO Station and Lakeridge Health Ajax and Pickering.
Ajax GO Station
Railway station
Photo: PascalHD, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ajax GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network located in Ajax, Ontario, Canada. It is a stop on the Lakeshore East line and on the Oshawa/Finch Express bus route.
Lakeridge Health Ajax and Pickering
Hospital
Lakeridge Health Ajax and Pickering is a hospital in Ajax, Ontario, Canada that is operated by Lakeridge Health. The hospital opened in 1954 as the Ajax and Pickering General Hospital.
Ajax Downs
Recreation area
Ajax Downs is a Quarter Horse race track located in Ajax, Ontario, a suburb east of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Opened in 1969 as "Picov Downs" the name was changed in 2006 with the establishment of a new slot-machine gaming facility.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pickering.
Pickering
Photo: Mdf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pickering is an outer suburb of Toronto in Durham, Ontario. Located directly east of Toronto on Ontario Highway 401, it shares a name with Pickering in North Yorkshire, England.
Ajax
- Categories: town, lower-tier municipality of Ontario, and locality
- Location: Durham, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.8505° or 43° 51′ 2″ northLongitude
-79.0209° or 79° 1′ 15″ westPopulation
120,000Elevation
97 metres (318 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA AJXOpen location code
87M2VX2H+6JOpenStreetMap ID
node 469888902OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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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 (安大略省)”
- Chinese: “亞積士”
- Chinese: “埃傑克斯”
- Chinese: “埃杰克斯”
- Chinese: “阿積士鎮”
- Chinese: “阿賈克斯”
- Czech: “Ajax”
- Danish: “Ajax”
- Dutch: “Ajax (Ontario)”
- 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”
- 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 (Ontario)”
- 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”
- Vietnamese: “Ajax”
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