Toronto

Toronto is a city in Ontario, Canada of about 2.8 million people (2021 census: 2,794,356). It is an amalgamation of six municipalities that merged in 1998:

• Old City of Toronto
• City of Scarborough
• City of North York
• Borough of East York
• City of York
• City of Etobicoke

The city straddles the north side of Lake Ontario, sitting only a few kilometres from an aquatic Canada-US border.

Landmarks

The most famous building in Toronto is the CN Tower, once the world's tallest free-standing structure (from 1975 to 2007), standing at 550 m (1,815 feet), until the Burj Khalifa in Dubai surpassed it.

Other buildings that non-residents might know of include:

• Royal Ontario Museum (with its hybrid mix of traditional and modern architecture)
• Art Gallery of Ontario (mostly modernist exterior)
• Rogers Centre (aka SkyDome, the sports stadium next to CN Tower)

Sports

Toronto has the following major league sports teams:

• Toronto Blue Jays (Major League Baseball)
• Toronto Maple Leafs (National Hockey League)
• Toronto Raptors (National Basketball League)
• Toronto Football Club (Major League Soccer)
• Toronto Argonauts (Canadian Football League)
• Toronto Rock (National Lacrosse League)
• Toronto Wolfpack (National Rugby League)

Suburbs

Municipalities immediately adjacent to Toronto include:

• City of Mississauga (west)
• City of Vaughan (northwest)
• City of Markham (northeast)
• City of Pickering (east)

Also nearby:

• Town of Oakville (west)
• City of Brampton (northwest)
• City of Richmond Hill (north)
• Town of Aurora (north of Richmond Hill)
• Town of Newmarket (north of Aurora)
• Town of Ajax (east of Pickering)
• Town of Whitby (east of Ajax)
• City of Oshawa (east of Whitby)

These suburbs show no immediate interest in joining Toronto, with especially Mississauga maintaining a distinct identity with its own city centre. Vaughan and Markham remain largely bedroom communities of Toronto. Meanwhile, the Rouge River mostly separates Pickering from Toronto, so it will likely remain its own entity for generations to come.