Cities
Southern Ontario is home to both Canada's largest city (Toronto) and the national capital city (Ottawa). Toronto is Canada's largest, and North America's fifth-largest, city. It has a population of 2,503,281, and a metropolitan population of over 6 million as of the 2011 census. Ottawa is Canada's fourth largest city and capital city. It is home to most federal government departments and the Parliament of Canada. It has a population of 883,391, and a metropolitan population of over 1.4 million.
Southern Ontario contains the only city in the nation where one can travel north to the contiguous United States. At Windsor, Ontario if one travels north they will reach Detroit, Michigan.
Southern Ontario communities have nine telephone area codes: 226, 249, 289, 343, 416, 519, 613, 647, 705, and 905. Two additional area codes 437 and 365 will be added in 2013.
Statistics Canada's measure of a "metro area", the Census Metropolitan Area (CMA), roughly bundles together population figures from the core municipality with those from "commuter" municipalities. Note: A city's Metropolitan area may actually be larger than its CMA. For example; Oshawa is part of the Greater Toronto Area, however it is considered its own CMA.
See also: Golden Horseshoe, Detroit–Windsor, and National Capital Region (Canada)| Southern Ontario Cities (not all metropolitan areas listed) | 2011 | 2006 | 2001 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toronto CMA | 5,583,064 | 5,113,149 | 4,682,897 |
| Ottawa CMA | 1,236,324 | 1,130,761 | 1,067,800 |
| Hamilton CMA | 721,053 | 692,911 | 662,401 |
| Kitchener CMA | 477,160 | 451,235 | 414,284 |
| London CMA | 474,786 | 457,720 | 435,600 |
| St. Catharines–Niagara CMA | 392,184 | 390,317 | 377,009 |
| Oshawa CMA | 356,177 | 330,594 | 296,298 |
| Windsor CMA | 319,246 | 323,342 | 307,877 |
| Barrie CMA | 187,013 | 177,061 | 148,480 |
| Kingston CMA | 159,561 | 152,358 | 146,838 |
| Guelph CMA | 141,097 | 127,009 | 117,344 |
| Brantford CMA | 135,501 | 124,607 | 118,086 |
| Peterborough CMA | 118,975 | 116,570 | 110,876 |
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“The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers’ hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)