Greater Toronto

Greater Toronto is the name most commonly applied to the metropolitan area surrounding the Canadian city of Toronto proper, an independent city and the capital of Ontario, the most populous of Canada's 13 provinces. While Toronto proper had an estimated population in December 2020 of 7.32 million, Greater Toronto was home to over 18.85 million people, nearly half the total population of Ontario. Greater Toronto is served by an extensive subway/skytrain and commuter rail network with ten urban, seven interurban and four intercity lines, as well as one of the world's best public bus systems.