Greater Toronto Area
The Greater Toronto Area is centred on the city of Toronto, in Ontario's Golden Horseshoe. It is generally considered to extend west to the border with Hamilton, east to the border of Port Hope, and north to the shore of Lake Simcoe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Toronto and Mississauga.
Toronto
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Toronto is a diverse, energetic and liveable city, home to many tourist attractions, and seemingly endless dining, shopping and entertainment possibilities.
Mississauga
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Mississauga is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada. It is Toronto's largest suburb and Canada's seventh largest city.
Brampton
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Brampton is a city within the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario. It is one of Canada's fastest growing cities and has a population of more than 500,000. Brampton has a significant Sikh and South Asian population, with Jamaicans coming in second.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as York Region and Durham.
York Region
York is a region in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. The successor to York County, it includes sprawling north-of-Toronto suburbs north of Steeles Avenue in telephone area code +1-905.
Durham
Durham is a region of about 650,000 people in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario. While its cities and towns developed separately and have their own histories, since the 1980s, the region have been evolving into Toronto's eastern suburbs as more and more of its residents commute into the bigger city.
Peel
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Peel is a mixed urban, suburban and rural region in the western part of the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario.
Halton
Halton is a region of the Greater Toronto Area, home to about 550,000 people in 2016. As its bedroom communities for Toronto workers expand, it has one of the highest population growth rates in the country.
Toronto Pearson International Airport
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Toronto Pearson International Airport, ☏ +1 416-247-7678, toll-free: +1 866-207-1690. The airport is in Mississauga, a city adjacent to the west of Toronto.
Greater Toronto Area
- Type: metropolitan area
- Description: the largest metropolitan area in Canada, centered on Toronto, Ontario
- Also known as: “Greater Toronto”, “GTA”, “Toronto area”, “Toronto metro area”, and “Toronto metropolitan area”
- Location: Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude of center
43.6425° or 43° 38′ 33″ northLongitude of center
-79.3872° or 79° 23′ 14″ westWikidata ID
Q1024624
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Yue Chinese—“Greater Toronto Area” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “大多伦多地区”
- Chinese: “大多倫多”
- Chinese: “大多倫多地區”
- Czech: “Greater Toronto Area”
- Czech: “GTA”
- Czech: “Velké Toronto”
- Dutch: “Greater Toronto Area”
- Esperanto: “Granda Toronto”
- Finnish: “Suur-Toronto”
- Finnish: “Toronton metropolialue”
- French: “Grand Toronto”
- French: “Greater Toronto Area”
- French: “Région métropolitaine de Toronto”
- German: “Greater Toronto Area”
- Greek: “Ευρύτερη Περιοχή του Τορόντο”
- Greek: “Ευρύτερο Τορόντο”
- Hebrew: “טורונטו רבתי”
- Indonesian: “Wilayah Toronto Raya”
- Italian: “Area metropolitana di Toronto”
- Italian: “Grande Toronto”
- Italian: “Greater Toronto”
- Japanese: “GTA”
- Japanese: “グレータートロント”
- Japanese: “大トロント地域”
- Korean: “토론토 대도시권”
- Persian: “کلانشهر تورنتو”
- Polish: “Greater Toronto Area”
- Portuguese: “Greater toronto area”
- Portuguese: “Região Metropolitana de Toronto”
- Russian: “Большой Торонто”
- Scots: “Greater Toronto Area”
- Scots: “Greater Toronto Aurie”
- Scots: “Greater Toronto”
- Spanish: “Área de Toronto”
- Spanish: “Area metropolitana de Toronto”
- Spanish: “Área metropolitana de Toronto”
- Spanish: “Área Metropolitana de Toronto”
- Spanish: “Greater Toronto Area”
- Tamil: “டொரன்டோ பெரும்பாகம்”
- Turkish: “Büyük Toronto”
- Ukrainian: “Велике Торонто”
- Ukrainian: “Великий Торонто”
- Urdu: “ٹورنٹو عظمی علاقہ”
- Yue Chinese: “大多倫多地區”
- Yue Chinese: “大多地區”
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