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Ontario

Ontario is 's second-largest province, and the most populous, with more than 14 million inhabitants. It is home to the Canadian capital city of , and , which is Ontario's capital and Canada's largest city.
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Top destinations include Toronto and Ottawa.

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is a diverse, energetic and liveable city, home to many tourist attractions, and seemingly endless dining, shopping and entertainment possibilities.

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is 's capital. With over a million citizens, it is Canada's fourth-largest city, and Ontario's second-largest city. Across the River is , .

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is a port city in Ontario 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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The is centred on the city of , in Ontario's . It is generally considered to extend west to the border with , east to the border of , and north to the shore of Lake Simcoe.

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is the geographic area of Ontario extending from the Bruce Peninsula and Lake Huron on the north, the Lake Huron shoreline on the west, the Lake Erie shoreline on the south, and neighbouring the Toronto-Hamilton-Niagara Golden Horseshoe region on the east.

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is a corner of Ontario sandwiched between to the south and to the north. This region is a true blending of the character and culture of its neighbours, along with its own distinct influences.

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is the large and sparsely-populated region that dominates the map of Ontario but lies far away, both geographically and culturally, from the big cities of the south.

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is a secondary region of Southern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario that lies between and the eastern end of .

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The is in Ontario's , encompassing most of the city of Hamilton and all of Niagara Region. Niagara Region is a regional municipality consisting of cities, towns and villages east of Hamilton on the .
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Ontario

Latitude of center
50.0007° or 50° 0′ 2″ north
Longitude of center
-86.001° or 86° 0′ 4″ west
Population
13,600,000
Elevation
326 metres (1,070 feet)
Abbreviation
“ON”
Abbreviation
“Ont.”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 305700702
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
6093943
Wiki­data ID
Q1904
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ontario” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ontario”
  • Albanian: “Ontario”
  • Amharic: “ኦንታሪዮ”
  • Amharic: “ኦንቴሪዮ”
  • Arabic: “أونتاريو”
  • Aragonese: “Ontario”
  • Aragonese: “Provincia d’Ontario”
  • Armenian: “Օնտարիո”
  • Asturian: “Ontario”
  • Atikamekw: “Ontario”
  • Awadhi: “ओण्टारियो”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ontario”
  • Balinese: “Ontario”
  • Basque: “Ontario”
  • Bavarian: “Ontario”
  • Belarusian: “Антарыа (правінцыя)”
  • Belarusian: “Антарыа”
  • Belarusian: “Антарыё”
  • Belarusian: “правінцыя Антарыа”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Антарыа”
  • Bengali: “অন্টারিও”
  • Betawi: “Ontario”
  • Bhojpuri: “ओंटारियो”
  • Bhojpuri: “ओंटेरियो”
  • Bhojpuri: “ओंटैरियो”
  • Bosnian: “Ontario”
  • Breton: “ONT”
  • Breton: “Ontario”
  • Bulgarian: “Онтарио”
  • Burmese: “အွန်တေးရီးယိုးပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Ontario”
  • Catalan: “Ontàrio”
  • Catalan: “província d’Ontario”
  • Cebuano: “Ontario”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئانتاریۆ”
  • Cherokee: “ᎠᏂᏔᎵᎣ”
  • Chinese: “Ontario”
  • Chinese: “安大略”
  • Chinese: “安大略省”
  • Chinese: “安省”
  • Chinese: “美丽的湖省”
  • Cornish: “Ontario”
  • Corsican: “Ontario”
  • Corsican: “Ontariu”
  • Cree: “ᐅᐣᑌᕆᐅ”
  • Cree: “ᐅᓐᑌᕇᐤ”
  • Croatian: “Ontario”
  • Czech: “Ontario”
  • Danish: “Ontario”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ontario”
  • Dutch: “Ontario”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اونتاريو”
  • Esperanto: “ON”
  • Esperanto: “Ontario”
  • Estonian: “Ontario”
  • Faroese: “Ontario”
  • Finnish: “Ontario”
  • French: “ON”
  • French: “ONT”
  • French: “Ontario”
  • French: “Province d’Ontario”
  • Friulian: “Ontario”
  • Galician: “Ontario”
  • Georgian: “ონტარიო”
  • German: “CA-ON”
  • German: “Ontario”
  • Gothic: “𐌰𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌰𐍂𐌹𐍉”
  • Gothic: “𐍉𐌽𐍄𐌰𐍂𐌾𐌰𐌿”
  • Greek: “Οντάριο”
  • Guarani: “Ontario”
  • Guarani: “Ontário”
  • Gujarati: “ઑન્ટેરિઓ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ôn-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ôn-thai-lio̍k-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ôn-thai-lio̍k”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ontario-sén”
  • Hebrew: “אונטאריו”
  • Hebrew: “אונטריו”
  • Hindi: “ऑन्टेरिओ”
  • Hindi: “ओंटेरियो”
  • Hindi: “ओण्टारियो”
  • Hindi: “ओन्टारियो”
  • Hungarian: “Ontario”
  • Icelandic: “Ontario”
  • Ido: “Ontario”
  • Indonesian: “Ontario”
  • Interlingua: “Ontario”
  • Interlingue: “Ontario”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐋᓐᑎᐅᕆᐅ”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐋᓐᑎᐅᕆᔪ”
  • Irish: “Ontáirio”
  • Irish: “Ontario”
  • Italian: “Ontario”
  • Italian: “Provincia dell’Ontario”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Antierio”
  • Japanese: “オンタリオ”
  • Japanese: “オンタリオ州”
  • Kabyle: “Ontario”
  • Kalaallisut: “Ontario”
  • Kannada: “ಒಂಟಾರಿಯೊ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “ON”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “ONT”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Ontario, Kanada”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Ontario”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Онтарио”
  • Kazakh: “Онтарио”
  • Korean: “온타리오 주”
  • Korean: “온타리오주”
  • Kurdish: “Ontario”
  • Kurdish: “Ontaryo”
  • Ladino: “Ontariyo”
  • Ladino: “Ontaryo”
  • Latin: “Ontario”
  • Latvian: “Ontārio”
  • Ligurian: “Ontario”
  • Limburgan: “Ontario”
  • Lingala: “Ontario”
  • Literary Chinese: “安大略”
  • Literary Chinese: “安大略省”
  • Lithuanian: “Ontarijas”
  • Low German: “Ontario”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ontario”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ontario”
  • Macedonian: “Онтарио”
  • Malagasy: “Ontario”
  • Malay: “Ontario”
  • Malayalam: “ഒണ്ടാറിയോ”
  • Maltese: “Ontario”
  • Manx: “Ontario”
  • Maori: “Ontario”
  • Marathi: “ऑन्टारियो”
  • Marathi: “ऑन्टेरिओ”
  • Mazanderani: “اونتاریو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ontario”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “An-séng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “An-tāi-lio̍k-séng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “An-tāi-lio̍k”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ontario”
  • Mingrelian: “ონტარიო”
  • Mongolian: “Онтарио”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أونطاريو”
  • Nauru: “Ontario”
  • Nepali: “ओन्टारियो”
  • Newari: “अन्टारियो”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ontario”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ontario”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ontario”
  • Norwegian: “Ontario”
  • Novial: “Ontario”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ontàrio”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܘܢܛܐܪܝܘ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ontærigo”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ontario”
  • Ossetian: “Онтарио”
  • Pampanga: “Ontario”
  • Panjabi: “ਉਂਟਾਰੀਓ”
  • Panjabi: “ਓਂਟਾਰਿਓ”
  • Panjabi: “ਓਂਟਾਰੀਓ”
  • Papiamento: “Ontario”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Ontario”
  • Persian: “انتاریو”
  • Picard: “Ontario”
  • Piemontese: “Ontario”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Ontario”
  • Polish: “Ontario”
  • Portuguese: “ON”
  • Portuguese: “ONT”
  • Portuguese: “Ontário, Canadá”
  • Portuguese: “Ontario”
  • Portuguese: “Ontário”
  • Portuguese: “Província de Ontário”
  • Pushto: “اونتاريو”
  • Quechua: “Ontario pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Ontario”
  • Russia Buriat: “Онтарио”
  • Russian: “Онтарио”
  • Rusyn: “Онтарио (провинция)”
  • Rusyn: “Онтарио”
  • Samogitian: “Ontarėjė”
  • Sardinian: “Ontario”
  • Scots: “ONT”
  • Scots: “Ontario”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ontario”
  • Serbian: “Онтарио”
  • Serbian: “Онтерио”
  • Serbian: “Провинција Онтарио”
  • Serbian: “Провинција Онтерио”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ontario”
  • Sicilian: “Ontariu”
  • Sindhi: “اونٽاريو”
  • Sinhala: “ඔන්ටාරියෝ”
  • Slovak: “Ontário”
  • Slovenian: “CA-ON”
  • Slovenian: “ONT”
  • Slovenian: “Ontario”
  • Slovenian: “Provinca Ontario”
  • Slovenian: “Province of Ontario”
  • Somali: “Ontario”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اونتاریو”
  • Spanish: “ON”
  • Spanish: “Ont.”
  • Spanish: “ONT”
  • Spanish: “Ontario (Canadá)”
  • Spanish: “Ontario”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Ontario”
  • Swahili: “Ontario”
  • Swedish: “Ontario”
  • Tagalog: “Ontario, Canada”
  • Tagalog: “Ontario”
  • Tajik: “Онтарио”
  • Tajik: “Унторию”
  • Talysh: “Ontario”
  • Tamil: “ஒண்டாரியோ”
  • Tamil: “ஒன்ராறியோ”
  • Tamil: “ஒன்றாரியோ”
  • Tatar: “Онтарио”
  • Telugu: “అంటారియో”
  • Thai: “รัฐออนแทรีโอ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻOnitalio”
  • Turkish: “ON”
  • Turkish: “Ont.”
  • Turkish: “ONT”
  • Turkish: “Ontario”
  • Ukrainian: “Онтаріо”
  • Urdu: “انٹاریو”
  • Uzbek: “Ontario”
  • Venetian: “Ontario”
  • Vietnamese: “Ontario”
  • Vlaams: “Ontario”
  • Volapük: “Ontario”
  • Võro: “Ontario”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ontario”
  • Welsh: “Ontario”
  • Western Armenian: “Օնթարիօ”
  • Western Frisian: “Ontario”
  • Western Panjabi: “انٹاریو”
  • Western Panjabi: “اونٹاریو”
  • Wu Chinese: “安大略省”
  • Yakut: “Онтарио”
  • Yiddish: “אנטעריא”
  • Yue Chinese: “安大略”
  • Yue Chinese: “安大略省”
  • Yue Chinese: “安省”
  • “ma Antewijo”
  • “Ontarėjos”
  • “Ontario”
  • “Untàri”
  • “ओंटेरियो”

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