Markham
Markham is a suburban city directly north of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. It includes the historic village of Unionville, which is now a heritage district, and can offer the traveller some cheaper accommodation options if you don't mind the distance from the attractions of Toronto.- Type: City with 339,000 residents
- Description: city in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada
- Also known as: “City of Markham”, “Markham, ON”, and “Markham, Ontario”
- Neighbors: Pickering, Richmond Hill, Toronto, Vaughan, and Whitchurch-Stouffville
Places of Interest
Highlights include Flato Markham Theatre and Markham Civic Centre.
Flato Markham Theatre
Theater building
Markham Civic Centre
Town hall
The Markham Civic Centre is the city hall of the city of Markham, Ontario. The brick and glass Civic Centre was designed by architect Arthur Erickson with Richard Stevens Architects Limited and was opened on May 25, 1990.
Unionville GO Station
Railway station
Unionville GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network located in Markham, Ontario, Canada. It is a stop on the Stouffville line. The station is also served by Highway 407 East Express buses, which run westbound to Highway 407 station, northbound to Mount Joy GO Station, and eastbound to Durham College Oshawa GO station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Unionville and Buttonville.
Unionville
Suburb
Markham is a suburban city directly north of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. It includes the historic village of Unionville, which is now a heritage district, and can offer the traveller some cheaper accommodation options if you don't mind the distance from the attractions of Toronto.
Buttonville
Suburb
Buttonville is a suburban neighbourhood and former hamlet in the city of Markham, Ontario, Canada, bordering the larger Unionville district. The hamlet was named after its founder, John Button.
Brown’s Corners
Neighborhood
Brown's Corners is an unincorporated community in Markham, Regional Municipality of York in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada and located near the corner of Woodbine Avenue and Highway 7.
Markham
- Categories: lower-tier municipality of Ontario, big city, and locality
- Location: Markham, York Region, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.8564° or 43° 51′ 23″ north
Longitude
-79.3377° or 79° 20′ 16″ west
Population
339,000
Elevation
168 metres (551 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CA MKH
Open location code
87M2VM46+GW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
Discover Markham from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Markham” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Markham”
- Arabic: “ماركام”
- Armenian: “Մարքհամ”
- Asturian: “Markham”
- Atikamekw: “Markham”
- Belarusian: “Маркгэм”
- Belarusian: “Маркем”
- Bengali: “মার্কহাম”
- Bulgarian: “Маркъм”
- Catalan: “Markham”
- Cebuano: “Markham”
- Central Kurdish: “مارکھام”
- Chinese: “万锦”
- Chinese: “万锦市”
- Chinese: “萬錦”
- Chinese: “萬錦市”
- Chinese: “萬錦鎮”
- Chinese: “马克姆”
- Czech: “Markham”
- Danish: “Markham”
- Dutch: “Markham”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماركام”
- Esperanto: “Markham”
- Esperanto: “Markhamo”
- Estonian: “Markham”
- Finnish: “Markham”
- French: “Markham”
- German: “Markham”
- Greek: “Μάρκαμ”
- Gujarati: “માર્ખમ”
- Hausa: “Markham, Ontario”
- Hebrew: “מרקהאם”
- Hindi: “मार्खम”
- Hungarian: “Markham”
- Indonesian: “Markham, Ontario”
- Indonesian: “Markham”
- Irish: “Markham”
- Italian: “Markham”
- Japanese: “マーカム”
- Kannada: “ಮಾರ್ಕಮ್”
- Korean: “마컴”
- Korean: “마크햄”
- Latvian: “Markama”
- Lithuanian: “Markamas”
- Lithuanian: “Marklamas”
- Malagasy: “Markham”
- Malay: “Markham”
- Marathi: “मार्खम”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Markham”
- Norwegian: “Markham”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Markham”
- Persian: “مارکام، انتاریو”
- Persian: “مارکام”
- Persian: “مارکهام”
- Polish: “Markham”
- Portuguese: “Markham”
- Russian: “Маркем”
- Russian: “Маркхэм”
- Serbian: “Markham”
- Serbian: “Маркам”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Markham”
- Sinhala: “මර්ක්හම්”
- Slovak: “Markham”
- Spanish: “Markham (Ontario)”
- Spanish: “Markham”
- Swahili: “Markham, Ontario”
- Swahili: “Markham”
- Swedish: “Markham, Ontario”
- Swedish: “Markham”
- Tagalog: “Markham, Ontario”
- Tagalog: “Markham”
- Tamil: “யோங்லே”
- Tatar: “Маркем”
- Telugu: “మార్ఖం”
- Thai: “มาร์คแฮม”
- Turkish: “Markham, Ontario”
- Turkish: “Markham”
- Ukrainian: “Маркгам”
- Ukrainian: “Маркем”
- Urdu: “مارخم، انٹاریو”
- Urdu: “مارکھم، انٹاریو”
- Urdu: “مارکھم”
- Urdu: “مرکھم، انٹاریو”
- Urdu: “مرکھم، اونٹاریو”
- Venetian: “Markham”
- Vietnamese: “Markham”
- Volapük: “Markham”
- Waray (Philippines): “Markham, Ontario”
- Waray (Philippines): “Markham”
- Yue Chinese: “萬錦”
- “ma tomo Makon”
- “Markham”
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