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The Greater Toronto Area, commonly referred to as the GTA, includes the City of Toronto and the regional municipalities of Durham, Halton, Peel, and York.In total, the region contains 25 urban, suburban, and rural municipalities.
In the Greater Toronto Area, there are 25 incorporated municipalities in either York Region, Halton Region, Peel Region, Durham Region or Toronto. According to the 2021 census , the Greater Toronto Area has a total population of 6,711,985.
York Township was home to one of the original Black communities in the Toronto area, which was populated by many African American fugitive slaves. [3] By 1861, the township had the second-largest Black population in the Toronto area, after St. John's Ward , most of whom lived in York Township West (located west of Yonge Street and north of ...
It replaced the former York County in 1971, and is part of the Greater Toronto Area and the inner ring of the Golden Horseshoe. The regional government is headquartered in Newmarket. As of the 2021 census, York Region's population was 1,173,334, with a growth rate of 5.7% from 2016. [1]
The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) is an urban conurbation that is composed of some of the largest cities and metropolitan areas by population in the Canadian province of Ontario. The GTHA consists of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and the City of Hamilton .
York County was created on 16 June 1792 [1] and was part of the jurisdiction of the Home District of Upper Canada. It originally comprised all of what is now the City of Toronto, the regional municipalities of Halton, Peel, and York as well as portions of the Regional Municipality of Durham, and the City of Hamilton.
Markham (/ ˈ m ɑːr k ə m /) is a city in York Region, Ontario, Canada.It is approximately 30 km (19 mi) northeast of Downtown Toronto.In the 2021 Census, Markham had a population of 338,503, [2] which ranked it the largest in York Region, fourth largest in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), and 16th largest in Canada.
North York is a former township and city and is now one of the six administrative districts of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.It is located in the northern area of Toronto, centred around Yonge Street, north of Ontario Highway 401.