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 (Ontario)”, “Markham, ON”, “Markham, Ontario”, “Маркгам”, “Маркхэм”, “مارخم، انٹاریو”, “مرکھم، انٹاریو”, “مرکھم، اونٹاریو”, “万锦”, “万锦市”, and “萬錦鎮”
- Neighbors: Pickering, Richmond Hill, Toronto, Vaughan, and Whitchurch-Stouffville
Places of Interest
Highlights: Flato Markham Theatre and Markham Civic Centre.
Flato Markham Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Raysonho, Public domain.Markham Civic Centre
Town hall
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Unionville and Buttonville.
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)
UN/LOCODE
CA MKH
Open location code
87M2VM46+GW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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: “萬錦”
- Chinese: “萬錦市”
- 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”
- Serbian: “Маркам”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Markham”
- Sinhala: “මර්ක්හම්”
- Slovak: “Markham”
- 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: “Маркем”
- Urdu: “مارکھم، انٹاریو”
- Urdu: “مارکھم”
- 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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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Hagerman’s Corners and Underwood.
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