Toronto
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Yorkville and the Annex and Midtown.
Yorkville and the Annex
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Yorkville and The Annex are two neighbourhoods along Bloor St where downtown Toronto meets midtown. Helped by the University of Toronto and the stately homes in the area, the district has a different feel than the downtown neighbourhoods to the south with their modern condos and busier lifestyles.
Midtown
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Midtown is a district in Toronto north of downtown. It isn't an area with a large number of museums, theatres, or other tourist attractions - although there are a few sights to see.
East End
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The East End is a district of Toronto, known for its Greektown, the beaches of The Beach district and the trendy shops and restaurants along Queen St East.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Downtown East and Entertainment and Financial Districts.
Downtown East
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The Downtown East of Toronto covers an area south of Bloor Street roughly between Yonge Street and the Don River. Most points of interest are clustered either in the north or south ends of this district.
Entertainment and Financial Districts
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The Entertainment and Financial Districts, along with Yonge-Dundas to the north, form the heart of Toronto's downtown. By day, the suits and powerbrokers of the Financial District drive the city's economy from their glass and steel towers.
Kensington-Chinatown
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Kensington Market and Chinatown are neighbourhoods in the western side of downtown Toronto. Kensington Market is one of the most eclectic and unique locations in the entire city.
Harbourfront
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The Harbourfront neighbourhood in Toronto encompasses the area from the lakeshore corridor railway line in the north down to Lake Ontario in the south and from Exhibition Place in the west to Parliament Street in the east.
West End
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The West End of Toronto is bounded roughly by Bathurst St to the east, St Clair Avenue to the north, the Humber River to the west and Lake Ontario to the south.
Yonge-Dundas
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Yonge-Dundas is the very heart of downtown Toronto—in more ways than one. After all, the major arterials of Yonge Street and Dundas St meet here, and the resulting intersection may be the city's busiest.
North York
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North York is a suburb of Toronto that was a separate city until 1999 when six municipalities were merged into the present City of Toronto. North York has a unique charm being its own brand of multiculuralism.
Scarborough
Etobicoke
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Etobicoke is the westernmost of the six former Metropolitan Toronto boroughs before the city of Toronto was amalgamated in 1998. It is a predominantly suburban area, intersected by several major arterial highways, and home to a population of over 500,000.
Islands
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The Toronto Islands is a large park with a small residential community in the City of Toronto. The park is a popular summertime daytrip for Torontonians who want to get away from the hustle of the city.
Yonge Street
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Yonge Street is the main street of Toronto, Canada. It divides the city into east and west streets. Numbering for east-west streets begins at Yonge Street and increases in either direction.
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Places of Interest
Highlights include CN Tower and Scotiabank Arena.
CN Tower
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The CN Tower is a 553.3 m-high communications and observation tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Completed in 1976, it is located in downtown Toronto, built on the former Railway Lands.
Scotiabank Arena
Stadium
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Scotiabank Arena, formerly known as Air Canada Centre, is a multi-purpose arena located on Bay Street in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the home of the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association and the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League.
Rogers Centre
Stadium
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Rogers Centre is a retractable roof stadium in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated at the base of the CN Tower near the northern shore of Lake Ontario.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Niagara and Moss Park.
Niagara
Neighborhood
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Niagara is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located south of Queen Street West; it is usually bordered by Strachan Avenue to the west, Bathurst Street to the east, and the railway corridor to the south, and so named because Niagara Street runs through the centre of it.
Moss Park
Neighborhood
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Moss Park is a residential neighbourhood located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The area known as Moss Park is typically considered to be between Jarvis Street and Parliament Street, south of Dundas Street and North of Queen Street, an area dominated by public housing projects.
Dufferin Grove
Neighborhood
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Dufferin Grove is a neighbourhood located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, west of downtown. The neighbourhood is bordered by Bloor Street West to the north, Ossington Ave to the east, College Street to the south, and Dufferin Street to the west.
Toronto
- Type: City with 2,730,000 residents
- Description: capital and largest city of the province of Ontario, Canada
- Also known as: “City of Toronto”, “Hogtown”, “T-O”, “The 416”, “The Six”, “Toronto (Ont.)”, “Toronto, Canada”, “Toronto, ON”, and “Toronto, Ontario”
- Neighbors: Brampton, Durham, Markham, Mississauga, Peel, Pickering, Vaughan, and York Region
- Categories: provincial or territorial capital city in Canada, single-tier municipality, big city, largest city, financial center, census division of Canada, and locality
- Location: Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude
43.6409° or 43° 38′ 27″ northLongitude
-79.3863° or 79° 23′ 11″ westPopulation
2,730,000Elevation
161 metres (528 feet)IATA airport code
YTOUnited Nations Location Code
CA TOROpen location code
87M2JJR7+9FOpenStreetMap ID
node 18063533OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
6167865Wikidata ID
Q172
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Toronto” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Toronto”
- Albanian: “Toronto”
- Amharic: “ቶሮንቶ”
- Arabic: “تورنتو، أونتاريو”
- Arabic: “تورونتو”
- Aragonese: “Toronto”
- Armenian: “Թորոնթօ”
- Armenian: “Տորոնտո”
- Arpitan: “Toronto”
- Asturian: “Toronto”
- Atikamekw: “Toronto”
- Azerbaijani: “Toronto”
- Balinese: “Toronto”
- Bashkir: “Торонто”
- Basque: “Toronto”
- Bavarian: “Toronto”
- Belarusian: “Таронта”
- Bengali: “টরন্টো”
- Bengali: “টরোন্টো”
- Bengali: “টোরোন্টো”
- Bhojpuri: “टोरंटो”
- Bosnian: “Toronto”
- Breton: “Toronto”
- Bulgarian: “Торонто”
- Burmese: “တိုရွန်တိုမြို့”
- Catalan: “Toronto”
- Cebuano: “Toronto (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Toronto”
- Central Bikol: “Toronto”
- Central Kurdish: “تۆرۆنتۆ”
- Chavacano: “Toronto”
- Chechen: “Торонто”
- Chinese: “Toronto”
- Chinese: “多伦多”
- Chinese: “多倫多”
- Church Slavic: “Торонто”
- Chuvash: “Торонто”
- Cornish: “Toronto”
- Corsican: “Toronto”
- Croatian: “Toronto”
- Czech: “Toronto”
- Danish: “Toronto”
- Dimli (individual language): “Toronto”
- Dotyali: “टोरन्टो”
- Dutch: “City of Toronto”
- Dutch: “Toronto”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تورونتو”
- Erzya: “Торонто ош”
- Esperanto: “La 416”
- Esperanto: “Toronto”
- Estonian: “Toronto”
- Extremaduran: “Toronto”
- Faroese: “Toronto”
- Finnish: “Toronto”
- French: “Toronto”
- Fulah: “Toranto”
- Galician: “Toronto”
- Georgian: “ტორონტო”
- German: “City of Toronto”
- German: “Toronto”
- Gothic: “𐍄𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌽𐍄𐍉”
- Gothic: “𐍄𐍉𐍂𐍉𐌽𐍄𐌰𐌿”
- Greek: “Τορόντο”
- Guarani: “Toronto”
- Gujarati: “ટોરંટો”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tô-lùn-tô”
- Hakka Chinese: “Toronto”
- Hausa: “Toronto”
- Hebrew: “טורונטו”
- Hindi: “टॊरॊंटो”
- Hindi: “टोरंटो”
- Hindi: “टोरण्टो”
- Hindi: “टोरोंटो”
- Hungarian: “Toronto”
- Icelandic: “Toronto”
- Icelandic: “Torontó”
- Ido: “Toronto”
- Iloko: “Toronto”
- Inari Sami: “Toronto”
- Indonesian: “Hogtown”
- Indonesian: “The 416”
- Indonesian: “The Six”
- Indonesian: “Toronto”
- Interlingua: “Toronto”
- Interlingue: “Toronto”
- Inuktitut: “ᑐᕌᓐᑐ”
- Irish: “Toronto”
- Irish: “Torontó”
- Italian: “Toronto”
- Japanese: “トロント”
- Japanese: “多倫多”
- Javanese: “Toronto”
- Kabyle: “Toronto”
- Kalaallisut: “Toronto”
- Kannada: “ಟೊರಾಂಟೊ ನಗರ”
- Kannada: “ಟೊರಾಂಟೊ”
- Kannada: “ಟೊರಾಂಟೋ”
- Kannada: “ಟೊರೊಂಟೋ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Toronto”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Торонто”
- Kashmiri: “ٹورانٹو”
- Kazakh: “Торонто қаласы”
- Kazakh: “Торонто”
- Kirghiz: “Торонто”
- Komering: “Toronto”
- Korean: “터론터우”
- Korean: “토론토”
- Kurdish: “Toronto”
- Ladino: “Toronto”
- Lao: “ໂຕຣອນໂຕ”
- Latin: “Torontinum”
- Latin: “Torontum”
- Latvian: “Toronto”
- Ligurian: “Toronto”
- Limburgan: “Toronto”
- Literary Chinese: “多倫多”
- Lithuanian: “Torontas”
- Lombard: “Toronto”
- Low German: “Toronto”
- Lower Sorbian: “Toronto”
- Luxembourgish: “Toronto”
- Macedonian: “Торонто”
- Malagasy: “Toronto”
- Malay: “Toronto”
- Malayalam: “ടൊറാന്റോ”
- Malayalam: “ടോറോണ്ടോ”
- Maltese: “Belt ta‘ Toronto”
- Maltese: “Toronto”
- Manx: “Toronto”
- Maori: “Toronoto”
- Marathi: “टोराँटो”
- Mazanderani: “تورنتو”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Toronto”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Toronto”
- Mingrelian: “ტორონტო”
- Moksha: “Торонта”
- Moksha: “Торонто”
- Mongolian: “Торонто”
- Navajo: “Tsin Biiʼ Tó”
- Nepali: “टोरन्टो”
- Newari: “तोरन्तो”
- Northern Frisian: “Toronto”
- Northern Luri: “بورج زایارە یی کانادا”
- Northern Sami: “Toronto”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Toronto”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Toronto”
- Norwegian: “Toronto”
- Novial: “Toronto”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Toronto”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Toronto”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Þoruntburg”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Þoruntūn on Ontærige”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Þoruntūn on Ontærum”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Þoruntūn”
- Ossetian: “Торонто”
- Panjabi: “ਟੋਰਾਂਟੋ”
- Papiamento: “Toronto”
- Pedi: “Toronto”
- Pennsylvania German: “Toronto”
- Persian: “تورنتو”
- Picard: “Toronto”
- Piemontese: “Toronto”
- Polish: “Toronto”
- Portuguese: “Cidade de Toronto”
- Portuguese: “Toronto, Canadá”
- Portuguese: “Toronto, Ontário”
- Portuguese: “Toronto”
- Pushto: “ټورنټو”
- Quechua: “Toronto”
- Romanian: “Toronto”
- Russian: “Торонто”
- Samoan: “Toronto”
- Samogitian: “Toronts”
- Santali: “ᱴᱳᱨᱳᱱᱴᱳ”
- Sardinian: “Toronto”
- Scots: “Toronto”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Toronto”
- Serbian: “Toronto”
- Serbian: “Торонто, Онтарио”
- Serbian: “Торонто”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Toronto”
- Sicilian: “Torontu”
- Silesian: “Toronto”
- Sindhi: “ٽورنٽو”
- Sinhala: “ටොරොන්ටෝව”
- Skolt Sami: “Toronto”
- Slovak: “Toronto”
- Slovenian: “Toronto”
- Somali: “Toronto”
- South Azerbaijani: “تورونتو”
- Spanish: “Ciudad De Toronto”
- Spanish: “Toronto (Canadá)”
- Spanish: “Toronto (Ontario)”
- Spanish: “Toronto”
- Swahili: “Toronto”
- Swedish: “Toronto”
- Tagalog: “Toronto”
- Tajik: “Торонто”
- Talysh: “Toronto”
- Tamil: “டோரான்டோ”
- Tamil: “தொராண்டோ”
- Tamil: “ரொறன்ரோ”
- Tatar: “Торонто”
- Telugu: “టొరంటో”
- Thai: “โทรอนโต”
- Tok Pisin: “Toronto”
- Turkish: “Toronto”
- Turkmen: “Toronto”
- Twi: “Toronto”
- Udmurt: “Торонто”
- Uighur: “Toronto”
- Uighur: “تورونتو”
- Ukrainian: “Торонто”
- Upper Sorbian: “Toronto”
- Urdu: “ٹورانٹو”
- Uzbek: “Toronto”
- Venetian: “Toronto”
- Veps: “Toronto”
- Vietnamese: “Toronto”
- Vlax Romani: “Toronto”
- Volapük: “Toronto”
- Waray (Philippines): “Toronto”
- Welsh: “Toronto”
- Western Armenian: “Թորոնթօ”
- Western Frisian: “Toronto”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹورانٹو”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹورنٹو”
- Wu Chinese: “多伦多”
- Yakut: “Торонто”
- Yiddish: “טאראנטא”
- Yoruba: “Toronto”
- Yue Chinese: “多倫多”
- Zhuang: “Toronto”
- “ma tomo Towano”
- “ma Towano”
- “Toronto”
- “Toronts”
- “टोरंटो”
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