24 Facts About Greater Toronto

The Greater Toronto Area begins in Burlington in Halton Region, and extends along Lake Ontario past downtown Toronto eastward to Clarington in Durham Region.

However, the Greater Toronto Area, which is an economic area defined by the Government of Ontario, includes communities which are not included in the CMA as defined by Statistics Canada.

Greater Toronto Area is a part of several larger areas in Southern Ontario.

Term "Greater Toronto" was first used in writing as early as the 1900s, although at the time, the term only referred to the old city of Toronto and its immediate townships and villages, which became Metropolitan Toronto in 1954 and became the current city of Toronto in 1998.

Originally, the membership in Metropolitan Greater Toronto included the City of Greater Toronto and five townships: East York, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough and York; as well as seven villages and towns, which became amalgamated into their surrounding townships in 1967.

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The early Metro Greater Toronto government debated over the annexation of surrounding townships of Markham, Pickering and Vaughan.

Frederick Goldwin Gardiner, the first Metro Greater Toronto Chairman, planned on the conversion of these townships into boroughs of the Metro Greater Toronto government.

In 2005, the Government of Ontario passed legislation to prevent urban development and sprawl on environmentally sensitive land in the Greater Toronto Area, known as the Greenbelt, many of these areas including protected sections of the Oak Ridges Moraine, Rouge Park and the Niagara Escarpment.

Climate of the Greater Toronto Area is classified as humid continental, according to the Koppen climate classification.

Much of the Greater Toronto Area is under Koppen Dfb zone, while Old Toronto and some areas between there and Burlington to the south-west, are under the Koppen Dfa climate zone, the hot summer subtype.

Greater Toronto Area is a commercial, distribution, financial and economic centre, being the second largest financial centre in North America.

Greater Toronto has the largest regional economy in Canada, with its GDP surpassing the province of Quebec in 2015.

Greater Toronto is home to the headquarters of the Greater Toronto Stock Exchange and the Standard and Poor TSX Composite Index and offices of the TSX Venture Exchange.

The Greater Toronto Area is the second largest automotive centre in North America .

Greater Toronto's remaining farmland is completely within Rouge Park in the Rouge Valley.

The Port of Oshawa and Port of Greater Toronto handle between 2 and 4 million tonnes of cargo annually.

Greater Toronto Area is served by seven distinct telephone area codes.

Since the 2015 election, the Greater Toronto Area has been represented by 58 Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada.

The Greater Toronto Area has the ability to influence election results and determine the governing party in Canada, due in part to its large population and riding count.

Greater Toronto is the capital of Ontario with the Ontario Legislative Building, often metonymically known as Queen's Park after the street and park surrounding it, being located in downtown Greater Toronto.

Greater Toronto CMA has the largest proportions of foreign-born residents as a share of the total population out of all metropolitan areas in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development .

The Greater Toronto region is unusually diverse over the composition of its ethnicities.

Education in the Greater Toronto Area is managed by the provincial Ministry of Education, who manages preschool, elementary and secondary education, while the provincial Ministry of Colleges and Universities administers laws relating to tertiary education, including colleges, universities, and vocational schools.

Greater Toronto Area is home to six publicly funded colleges that have campuses spread in and around the metropolitan area.