Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, is one of three neighbouring cities, together with Kitchener, and Cambridge, forming a tightly-integrated metro area within the larger Region of Waterloo in Southwestern Ontario.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Giligone, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Giligone, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 105,000 residents
- Description: city in Ontario, Canada
- Also known as: “Waterloo, ON” and “Waterloo, Ontario”
- Neighbors: Kitchener and St. Jacobs
Places of Interest
Highlights include Waterloo Public Library and Dana Porter Library.
Waterloo Public Library
Library
Photo: Laurel L. Russwurm, CC BY 2.0.
The Waterloo Public Library is the public library system for Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1888, the library has four branches, as of May 2025.
Grand River Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Themightyquill, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grand River Hospital is a hospital located in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. The hospital operates two campuses, Kitchener-Waterloo Health Centre and Freeport Health Centre, which were independent hospitals that merged to form Grand River Hospital in April 1995.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kitchener and Rummelhardt.
Kitchener
Photo: Allie Caulfield, CC BY 2.0.
Kitchener and neighbouring Waterloo and Cambridge form a tightly-integrated metro area within the larger Region of Waterloo in Southwestern Ontario. At the time of the 2021 Canadian census, the population of the city of Kitchener was 256,885 people and the population of the Region of Waterloo area was 587,165.
Waterloo
- Categories: lower-tier municipality of Ontario, big city, and locality
- Location: Region of Waterloo, Southwestern Ontario, Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.4653° or 43° 27′ 55″ northLongitude
-80.5223° or 80° 31′ 20″ westPopulation
105,000Elevation
325 metres (1,066 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA WTLOpen location code
86MXFF8H+43OpenStreetMap ID
node 248829055OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Waterloo” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Waterloo, Ontario”
- Afrikaans: “Waterloo”
- Albanian: “Waterloo”
- Arabic: “واترلو (أونتاريو)”
- Arabic: “واترلو(مدينة)”
- Arabic: “واترلو”
- Armenian: “Վաթերլու”
- Asturian: “Waterloo”
- Atikamekw: “Waterloo”
- Belarusian: “Ватэрлоа”
- Belarusian: “Уотэрлоа”
- Bengali: “ওয়াটারলু”
- Catalan: “Waterloo”
- Cebuano: “Waterloo”
- Central Kurdish: “واتەرلوو”
- Chinese: “滑铁卢”
- Chinese: “滑鐵盧”
- Chinese: “窩打老”
- Czech: “Waterloo”
- Danish: “Waterloo”
- Dimli (individual language): “Waterloo, Ontario”
- Dimli (individual language): “Waterloo”
- Dutch: “Waterloo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “واترلو”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ووترلاو, اونتاريو”
- Esperanto: “Vaterlo”
- Esperanto: “Waterloo”
- Finnish: “Waterloo”
- French: “Waterloo”
- German: “Waterloo”
- Greek: “Γουοτερλού”
- Greek: “Γουότερλου”
- Gujarati: “વોટરલૂ”
- Hebrew: “ווטרלו”
- Hindi: “वाटरलू”
- Hungarian: “Waterloo”
- Indonesian: “Waterloo”
- Irish: “Waterloo”
- Italian: “Waterloo”
- Japanese: “ウォータールー”
- Kannada: “ವಾಟರ್ಲೂ”
- Korean: “워털루 (온타리오 주)”
- Korean: “워털루”
- Latvian: “Vaterlu”
- Lithuanian: “Vaterlu”
- Macedonian: “Вотерлу”
- Malay: “Waterloo”
- Marathi: “वॉटरलू”
- Marathi: “वॉटर्लू”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Waterloo”
- Persian: “واترلو، انتاریو”
- Persian: “واترلو”
- Polish: “Waterloo”
- Portuguese: “Waterloo”
- Russian: “Ватерлоо (Онтарио)”
- Russian: “Ватерлоо”
- Russian: “Уотерлу”
- Serbian: “Вотерлу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Waterloo”
- Silesian: “Waterloo”
- Sinhala: “වෝටර්ලු”
- Slovak: “Waterloo”
- Slovenian: “Waterloo”
- Spanish: “Waterloo (Ontario)”
- Spanish: “Waterloo”
- Swahili: “Waterloo, Ontario”
- Swahili: “Waterloo”
- Swedish: “Waterloo, Ontario”
- Swedish: “Waterloo”
- Tagalog: “Waterloo, Ontario”
- Tagalog: “Waterloo”
- Tamil: “வாடெர்லூ”
- Tatar: “Вотерлу”
- Telugu: “వాటర్లూ”
- Thai: “วอเตอร์ลู”
- Turkish: “Waterloo, Ontario”
- Turkish: “Waterloo”
- Ukrainian: “Ватерлоо”
- Urdu: “واٹرلو، انٹاریو”
- Urdu: “واٹرلو”
- Venetian: “Waterloo”
- Vietnamese: “Waterloo”
- Volapük: “Waterloo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Waterloo, Ontario”
- Waray (Philippines): “Waterloo”
- Welsh: “Waterloo”
- Yue Chinese: “滑鐵盧”
- Yue Chinese: “窩打老”
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