Western Ontario
Western Ontario is a group of counties on the west coast of Southwestern Ontario. It is a largely agricultural region with some great beach communities and a few smaller cities.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include London and Sarnia.
London
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London is a medium-sized city in Southwestern Ontario with a population of 378,000. It is west of Toronto, between Lake Huron and Lake Erie at the fork of the Thames River, which was named after the River Thames in London, England.
Sarnia
Sarnia is a city in Southwestern Ontario with a population of around 98,000. It is at the south end of Lake Huron. It includes Point Edward, a village in the northwest corner of the city.
Stratford
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Stratford is a city in Southwestern Ontario that is internationally known for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, acclaimed for its presentation of Shakespearean, classical and musical theatre. In 2021, it was home to 33,000 people.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Woodstock and Goderich.
Woodstock
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Woodstock is a city of about 41,000 people in Southwestern Ontario. It is west of Toronto, between Lake Huron and Lake Erie on the upper Thames river.
Goderich
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Goderich is a town of 7,700 people in Huron County, by the shore of Lake Huron. It is a service centre for the surrounding agricultural communities, and has one of the oldest salt mines in Ontario, dating to 1866. Also a beach community.
St. Marys
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St. Marys is a town of 7,300 people in Southwestern Ontario, between Stratford and London. It is known as the "stone town" for its large number of limestone buildings.
Ipperwash Beach
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Ipperwash Beach is a small community in the municipality of Lambton Shores in Southwestern Ontario.
Tillsonburg
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Tillsonburg is a town of about 16,000 people in Southwestern Ontario, about 50 km south-east of London.
Ingersoll
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Ingersoll is a town of about 13,700 in Southwestern Ontario, southwest of Toronto between Woodstock and London.
Grand Bend
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Grand Bend is a community located on the shores of Lake Huron in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Municipality of Lambton Shores in Lambton County.
Clinton
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Clinton is a small town in Huron County named after Sir Henry Clinton, a Peninsular War hero. This small community gained fame as Canada's home of radar and is home to the permanent display of the School on Wheels.
Zurich
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Zurich is a community in southwestern Ontario, Canada, in the Municipality of Bluewater in Huron County, about six kilometres inland from Lake Huron, on Ontario's west coast.
Lucan
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Lucan is a village on the township of Lucan Biddulph in Southwestern Ontario. The township had a population of 4,700 in 2016.
Western Ontario
- Type: county of Ontario with 59,300 residents
- Description: county in Ontario, Canada
- Also known as: “Huron County”, “Huron County, ON”, and “Huron County, Ontario”
- Neighbors: Grey County and Wellington and Dufferin Counties
- Categories: upper-tier municipality and census division of Canada
- Location: Southwestern Ontario, Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude of center
43.67° or 43° 40′ 12″ northLongitude of center
-81.4° or 81° 24′ westPopulation
59,300Wikidata ID
Q1638493
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Western Ontario” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Kontea Huron”
- Armenian: “Հուրոն շրջան”
- Belarusian: “Гурон”
- Catalan: “Comtat d’Huron”
- Cebuano: “Huron County”
- Chinese: “休倫縣”
- Dutch: “Huron County”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Hurono”
- French: “comté de Huron”
- French: “Comté de Huron”
- German: “Huron County”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Χιούρον”
- Greek: “Χιούρον”
- Irish: “Contae Huron”
- Italian: “Contea di Huron (Ontario)”
- Italian: “Contea di Huron”
- Japanese: “ヒューロン郡”
- Korean: “휴론 컨트리”
- Persian: “شهرستان هورون، انتاریو”
- Persian: “شهرستان هیورن”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Huron”
- Portuguese: “Condado de huron (ontário)”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Huron”
- Portuguese: “de Hurão”
- Russian: “Гурон”
- Spanish: “Condado de Huron (Ontario)”
- Spanish: “Condado de Huron”
- Swedish: “Huron County, Ontario”
- Swedish: “Huron County”
- Turkish: “Huron County”
- Ukrainian: “Гурон графство”
- Ukrainian: “Гурон”
- Venetian: “contea de Huron”
- Western Panjabi: “ہیورن کاؤنٹی”
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