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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Burlington and Oakville.
Burlington
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Burlington is a city of 190,000 people in Ontario, Canada which lies across Burlington Bay from Hamilton. It's on the north shore of Lake Ontario, a 45-minute drive from Toronto and Niagara.
Oakville
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Oakville is a town of 190,000 people on the north shore of Lake Ontario, about 30 km west of Toronto.
Milton
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Milton is a town of 110,000 people in Southern Ontario, approximately 40 km west of Toronto. Once a small rural town, it is now a major suburban area of the GTA and is one of the fastest growing communities in Canada.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Glen Williams and Georgetown.
Glen Williams
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"Beautiful spot! A perfect oasis in the leafy desert…." Such were the first impressions of a traveller who arrived in the Glen in 1847. Glen Williams is a tiny village, a hamlet, in the Credit River valley just north of Georgetown, a 45 minute drive west of Toronto.
Georgetown
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Georgetown is the largest community in the town of Halton Hills in the Halton region of the Greater Toronto Area.
Acton
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Acton is a community of about 9,400 people in the Town of Halton Hills in Halton Region. It sits above the Niagara Escarpment, and the Bruce Trail passes to the south and east of the community, with the Guelph Trail branching off and passing south of town.
Halton
- Type: County with 500,000 residents
- Description: regional municipality in Ontario, Canada
- Also known as: “Halton Region” and “Regional Municipality of Halton”
- Neighbors: Hamilton and Wellington and Dufferin Counties
- Categories: regional municipality of Ontario, upper-tier municipality, and locality
- Location: Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
43.5044° or 43° 30′ 16″ northLongitude of center
-79.8771° or 79° 52′ 38″ westPopulation
500,000Elevation
194 metres (636 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 6180276225OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Halton” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Հալթոն”
- Basque: “Haltongo udalerria”
- Cebuano: “Halton”
- Chinese: “荷頓區”
- Czech: “Halton”
- Dutch: “Regional Municipality of Halton”
- French: “municipalité régionale de Halton”
- French: “Municipalité régionale de Halton”
- German: “Halton Region”
- German: “Regional Municipality of Halton”
- Greek: “περιφερειακός δήμος του Χάλτον”
- Italian: “Municipalità Regionale di Halton”
- Japanese: “ハルトン地域”
- Persian: “شهرستان هالتن”
- Polish: “Region Halton”
- Portuguese: “Municipalidade Regional de Halton”
- Russian: “Халтон”
- Slovenian: “Regionalna občina Halton”
- Spanish: “Municipalidad Regional de Halton”
- Spanish: “Municipio regional de Halton”
- Swedish: “Halton Region”
- Swedish: “Regional Municipality of Halton”
- Turkish: “Regional Municipality of Halton”
- Ukrainian: “Галтон”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Halton”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.