Toronto

Toronto

About Toronto

Population

2,731,571 in city
5,623,400 in metro

Size

629 km² (243 mi²)

Altitude

76 m

With nearly six million people in the metropolitan area, Toronto is the largest city in the country and has a skyline to match. More than 200 years ago, the banks of Lake Ontario were known to the Huron people as Toronto, a word in their language that meant "meeting place." In 1793, British settlers named the town that had sprung up, York. In 1834, they realized that the Hurons were right in the first place. It remains today a meeting place, a crossroads of culture and cultures; Toronto has been the name ever since. But then again, people keep coming up with different ways to identify this vibrant, exciting place. Hardly anyone fails to mention its multi-ethnicity, but more and more people are discovering new adjectives for Toronto, one of only three cities in the world without a dominant ethnic or cultural group.

Zones

Dentonia (21), Discovery District (182), Railway Lands (47), The Mall (28), Yonge-Dundas Square (28)

Boroughs

East York (59), Etobicoke (284), North York (564), Scarborough (1,080), Toronto (2,796), York (71)

No. of Buildings

No.	Current status
9,661	All Buildings
8,203	existing
236	under construction
750	planned
399	unbuilt
73	demolished

Tallest Buildings

#	Building	Height	Year
1	First Canadian Place	978 ft	1976
2	The St. Regis Toronto	909 ft	2012
3	Scotia Plaza	902 ft	1988
4	Aura	892 ft	2014
5	TD Canada Trust Tower	856 ft	1990

Building types

No.	Type
5,189	low-rise building
2,814	high-rise building
777	skyscraper
504	church
138	bridge
45	chimney
44	hall
19	stadium
17	synagogue
17	temple
13	building with towers
12	subterranean building
12	mosque
11	silo
10	water tower
10	mast (framework)
8	house
5	open-air structure
3	clock/bell tower
3	lighthouse
2	monument
2	multi-story building
2	castle
1	ship elevator
1	telecommunications tower
1	airport tower
1	windmill

Other buildings

No.	Type
34	Famous buildings
703	Buildings with construction images