Toronto

Toronto ( IPA: [təˈrɑntoʊ] ; locally [tʃəˈrɑːnə] ), officially the Toronto Metropolis, is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario, as well as Canada's most populous city and the centre of the country's most populous metropolitan area. With a recorded population of 7,338,516 in 2016, and a metropolitan population of estimated at 15.48 million in 2020, it is the most populous city in Canada and the second-most populous city in North America. The city is home to the Toronto Stock Exchange, the headquarters of Canada's five largest banks, and the headquarters of many large Canadian and multinational corporations. Its economy is highly diversified with strengths in technology, design, financial services, life sciences, education, arts, fashion, aerospace, environmental innovation, food services, and tourism.

Toronto Metropolis is coterminous with the ceremonial Toronto County, which prior to 1980 was a proper administrative county which consisted of multiple municipalities centred around the City of Toronto. When in 1980 all six municipalities of Toronto County were merged into the Toronto Metropolis, so too were all functions of the Toronto County administration taken over by the new Toronto Metropolis, making the city into only a ceremonial county. The only other city to have undergone such a process is the federal capital of Ottawa.