Aurora
Aurora is a town in central York Region, in the Greater Toronto Area of Southern Ontario, Canada. It is located 48km from Downtown Toronto, north of Richmond Hill partially situated on the Oak Ridges Moraine, and surrounded by the Greenbelt.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Mykola Swarnyk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 55,400 residents
- Description: town in York Region, Ontario, Canada
- Also known as: “Aurora, ON” and “Aurora, Ontario”
- Neighbors: King, Newmarket, Richmond Hill, and Whitchurch-Stouffville
Photo: Mykola Swarnyk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Aurora GO Station and Aurora Public Library.
Aurora GO Station
Railway station
Photo: Secondarywaltz, Public domain.
Aurora GO Station is a railway station and bus station in the GO Transit network located on Wellington Street East between Yonge Street and Bayview Avenue in Aurora, Ontario, Canada.
Aurora Public Library
Library
The Aurora Public Library is located in Aurora, Ontario, Canada. The library has a collection of more than 256,643 items and has over 25,406 registered users.
Aurora Cultural Centre
Arts center
Photo: Mykola Swarnyk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Aurora Cultural Centre is an arts center.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newmarket.
Newmarket
Photo: Relic38, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Town of Newmarket is a town of 84,000 people in the centre of York Region in Ontario. It is halfway between Toronto and Barrie along Highway 11/Yonge Street.
Aurora
- Categories: lower-tier municipality of Ontario and locality
- Location: York Region, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.9997° or 43° 59′ 59″ northLongitude
-79.4675° or 79° 28′ 3″ westPopulation
55,400Elevation
266 metres (873 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA AUROpen location code
87M2XGXJ+VXOpenStreetMap ID
node 558715505OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Aurora from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Aurora” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Aurora”
- Arabic: “أورورا”
- Aragonese: “Aurora”
- Arpitan: “Aurora”
- Asturian: “Aurora”
- Atikamekw: “Aurora”
- Basque: “Aurora”
- Bavarian: “Aurora”
- Belarusian: “Арора (Антарыа)”
- Belarusian: “Арора”
- Breton: “Aurora”
- Catalan: “Aurora”
- Cebuano: “Aurora”
- Chinese: “奥罗拉”
- Chinese: “奧羅拉”
- Corsican: “Aurora”
- Croatian: “Aurora”
- Czech: “Aurora”
- Danish: “Aurora”
- Dutch: “Aurora”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اورورا”
- Esperanto: “Aurora”
- Estonian: “Aurora”
- Faroese: “Aurora”
- Finnish: “Aurora”
- French: “Aurora”
- Friulian: “Aurora”
- Galician: “Aurora”
- German: “Aurora”
- Hebrew: “אורורה”
- Hungarian: “Aurora”
- Icelandic: “Aurora”
- Ido: “Aurora”
- Indonesian: “Aurora”
- Interlingua: “Aurora”
- Interlingue: “Aurora”
- Irish: “Aurora”
- Italian: “Aurora”
- Japanese: “オーロラ”
- Kalaallisut: “Aurora”
- Kongo: “Aurora”
- Korean: “오로라”
- Ligurian: “Aurora”
- Limburgan: “Aurora”
- Low German: “Aurora”
- Luxembourgish: “Aurora”
- Malagasy: “Aurora”
- Malay: “Aurora”
- Minangkabau: “Aurora”
- Narom: “Aurora”
- Neapolitan: “Aurora”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aurora”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aurora”
- Norwegian: “Aurora”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Aurora”
- Persian: “آئورورا”
- Persian: “آرورا، انتاریو”
- Picard: “Aurora”
- Piemontese: “Aurora”
- Polish: “Aurora”
- Portuguese: “Aurora”
- Romanian: “Aurora”
- Romansh: “Aurora”
- Russian: “Орора”
- Sardinian: “Aurora”
- Scots: “Aurora”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Aurora”
- Serbian: “Aurora”
- Serbian: “Орора”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Aurora”
- Sicilian: “Aurora”
- Slovak: “Aurora”
- Slovenian: “Aurora”
- Spanish: “Aurora (Ontario)”
- Spanish: “Aurora”
- Swahili: “Aurora”
- Swedish: “Aurora, Ontario”
- Swedish: “Aurora”
- Swiss German: “Aurora”
- Turkish: “Aurora”
- Ukrainian: “Аврора”
- Ukrainian: “Арора”
- Urdu: “ارورا، اونٹاریو”
- Venetian: “Aurora”
- Vietnamese: “Aurora”
- Vlaams: “Aurora”
- Volapük: “Aurora”
- Walloon: “Aurora”
- Welsh: “Aurora”
- Wolof: “Aurora”
- Zulu: “Aurora”
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