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Hamilton

Hamilton is a port city in with a population around 520,000, at the westernmost end of Lake Ontario—the city wraps around the lake and continues towards the Niagara Escarpment, referred to by locals as "the mountain".
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Places of Interest

Highlights include TD Coliseum and Hamilton City Hall.

Stadium
Photo: Jeff Hitchcock, CC BY 2.0.
is a sports and entertainment arena at the corner of Bay Street North and York Boulevard in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Opened in 1985 as Copps Coliseum, it has a capacity of up to 19,000.

Town hall
Photo: Flar, Public domain.
is the chief administrative building for the city of Hamilton. Located in the downtown core, it is an 8-storey building at the corner of Main Street West and Bay Street South, across the street from the FirstOntario Concert Hall and the .

Railway station
Photo: Robbie.dmo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a commuter rail station and bus terminal in downtown Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. As the terminal stop for evening rush-hour Lakeshore West line trains, it is a major hub for GO Transit bus and train services.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Strathcona and Beasley.

Neighborhood
The neighbourhood is located west of downtown Hamilton, Ontario, and is bounded by Highway 403, the CNR rail line, Queen Street, York Boulevard and Main Street.

Neighborhood
is a neighbourhood in the Lower City area of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The neighbourhood is bounded in the north by the Canadian National Railway tracks just north of Barton Street, James Street, Main Street and Wellington Street.

Neighborhood
is a pedestrianized area in the downtown of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Its streets, in contrast to other areas in Hamilton, are quite thin and restrict vehicle access.

Hamilton

Latitude
43.2561° or 43° 15′ 22″ north
Longitude
-79.8729° or 79° 52′ 22″ west
Population
569,000
Elevation
95 metres (312 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CA HAM
Open location code
87M2744G+CV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 18996031
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5969782
Wiki­data ID
Q133116
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Hamilton” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hamilton, Ontario”
  • Afrikaans: “Hamilton”
  • Albanian: “Hamilton”
  • Arabic: “هاميلتون”
  • Arabic: “هميلتون، أنتاريو”
  • Arabic: “هميلتون”
  • Armenian: “Համիլտոն”
  • Asturian: “Hamilton”
  • Atikamekw: “Hamilton oteno”
  • Atikamekw: “Hamilton”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hamilton”
  • Basque: “Hamilton”
  • Belarusian: “Гамільтан”
  • Bengali: “হ্যামিলটন, অন্টারিও”
  • Bengali: “হ্যামিলটন, কানাডা”
  • Bengali: “হ্যামিল্টন সিটি”
  • Bengali: “হ্যামিল্টন, অন্টারিও”
  • Bengali: “হ্যামিল্টন”
  • Breton: “Hamilton”
  • Bulgarian: “Хамилтън”
  • Catalan: “Hamilton”
  • Cebuano: “Hamilton”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھامڵتن”
  • Chinese: “咸美頓”
  • Chinese: “哈密尔顿”
  • Chinese: “哈密爾頓”
  • Chinese: “安大略省哈密尔顿市”
  • Chinese: “汉密尔顿”
  • Croatian: “hamilton ontario”
  • Czech: “Hamilton”
  • Danish: “Hamilton”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Hamilton, Ontario”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Hamilton”
  • Dutch: “Hamilton”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هاميلتون”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “همیلتون”
  • Esperanto: “Hamilton”
  • Esperanto: “Hamiltono”
  • Estonian: “Hamilton”
  • Finnish: “Hamilton, Ontario”
  • Finnish: “Hamilton”
  • French: “Hamilton”
  • Galician: “Hamilton, Canadá”
  • Galician: “Hamilton”
  • Georgian: “ჰამილტონი”
  • German: “Hamilton”
  • Greek: “Χάμιλτον”
  • Gujarati: “હેમિલ્ટન”
  • Hebrew: “המילטון”
  • Hindi: “हैमिल्टन”
  • Hungarian: “Hamilton”
  • Icelandic: “Hamilton”
  • Indonesian: “Hamilton, Ontario”
  • Indonesian: “Hamilton”
  • Interlingue: “Hamilton”
  • Irish: “Hamilton, Ontario”
  • Irish: “Hamilton”
  • Italian: “Hamilton”
  • Japanese: “ハミルトン”
  • Kannada: “ಹ್ಯಾಮಿಲ್ಟನ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Гамильтон”
  • Korean: “해밀턴”
  • Kurdish: “Hamilton”
  • Latin: “Hamiltonia”
  • Latvian: “Hamiltona”
  • Lithuanian: “Hamiltonas”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Hamilton”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hamilton”
  • Macedonian: “Хамилтон”
  • Malay: “Hamilton, Ontario”
  • Malay: “Hamilton”
  • Marathi: “हॅमिल्टन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamilton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hamilton i Ontario”
  • Norwegian: “Hamilton”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hamilton”
  • Ossetian: “Гамильтон”
  • Persian: “همیلتون، انتاریو”
  • Persian: “همیلتون”
  • Polish: “Hamilton”
  • Portuguese: “Hamilton”
  • Romanian: “Hamilton, Ontario”
  • Romanian: “Hamilton”
  • Russian: “Гамильтон (Онтарио)”
  • Russian: “Гамильтон”
  • Rusyn: “Гамилтон (Онтарио)”
  • Rusyn: “Гамилтон”
  • Scots: “Hamilton, Ontario”
  • Scots: “Hamilton”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hamilton”
  • Serbian: “Hamilton”
  • Serbian: “Хамилтон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hamilton”
  • Silesian: “Hamilton”
  • Sinhala: “හැමිල්ටන්, ඔන්ටාරියෝ”
  • Sinhala: “හැමිල්ටන්”
  • Slovak: “Hamilton”
  • Slovenian: “Hamilton”
  • Spanish: “Hamilton (Ontario)”
  • Spanish: “Hamilton”
  • Swahili: “Hamilton, Ontario”
  • Swahili: “Hamilton”
  • Swedish: “Hamilton, Ontario”
  • Swedish: “Hamilton”
  • Swedish: “Wentworth County”
  • Tagalog: “Hamilton, Ontario”
  • Tagalog: “Hamilton”
  • Tajik: “Ҳамилтон”
  • Tajik: “Ҳомилтун”
  • Tamil: “ஆமில்டன், ஒண்டாரியோ”
  • Tamil: “ஆமில்டன்”
  • Tatar: “Һәмилтон”
  • Telugu: “హామిల్టన్”
  • Thai: “แฮมิลตัน”
  • Turkish: “Hamilton, Ontario”
  • Turkish: “Hamilton”
  • Twi: “Hamilton”
  • Ukrainian: “Гамільтон”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Hamilton”
  • Urdu: “ہیملٹن، انٹاریو”
  • Urdu: “ہیملٹن، اونٹاریو”
  • Urdu: “ہیملٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Gamilton”
  • Venetian: “Hamilton”
  • Vietnamese: “Hamilton”
  • Volapük: “Hamilton”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hamilton, Ontario”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hamilton”
  • Welsh: “Hamilton”
  • Western Armenian: “Համիլթըն”
  • Western Frisian: “Hamilton”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہاملٹن”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہیملٹن، انٹاریو”
  • Wu Chinese: “哈密尔顿 (安大略)”
  • Wu Chinese: “哈密尔顿（安大略）”
  • Yue Chinese: “咸美頓”

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