Ontario

Ontario
Province
Flag Coat of arms
Motto(s):  Latin: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet ("Loyal she began, loyal she remains")
BC AB SK MB ON QC NB PE NS NL YT NT NU
Coordinates: 49°15′00″N 84°30′00″W / 49.25000°N 84.50000°W / 49.25000; -84.50000
Country	Canada
Confederation	July 1, 1867 (1st, with Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick)
Largest city	Toronto
Largest metro	Greater Toronto Area
Government
• Type	Constitutional monarchy
• Body	Government of Ontario
• Lieutenant Governor	Edith Dumont
• Premier	Doug Ford (PC)
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Federal representation	Parliament of Canada
House seats	121 of 338 (35.8%)
Senate seats	24 of 105 (22.9%)
Area [2]
• Total	1,076,395 km2 (415,598 sq mi)
• Land	917,741 km2 (354,342 sq mi)
• Water	158,654 km2 (61,257 sq mi)  14.7%
• Rank	Ranked 4th
	10.8% of Canada
Population  (2016)
• Total	13,448,494 [1]
• Estimate  (2020 Q4)	14,733,119 [3]
• Rank	Ranked 1st
• Density	14.65/km2 (37.9/sq mi)
Demonym	Ontarian[4]
Official languages	English (de facto)[5]
GDP
• Rank	1st
• Total (2015)	CA$763.276 billion[6]
• Per capita	CA$59,879 (7th)
HDI
• HDI (2018)	0.929[7] — Very high (3rd)
Time zones
East of 90th meridian west	UTC-05:00 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-04:00 (EDT)
West of 90th meridian west, except Atikokan and Pickle Lake	UTC-06:00 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-05:00 (CDT)
Atikokan and Pickle Lake (No DST)	UTC-05:00 (EST)
Postal abbr.	ON
Postal code prefix	K L M N P
ISO 3166 code	CA-ON
Flower	White trillium
Tree	Eastern white pine
Bird	Common loon
Rankings include all provinces and territories

Ontario is a province of Canada. It is in the eastern half of Canada, between Manitoba and Quebec. Ontario has the most people of any province, with 13,150,000 in 2009, and is home to the biggest city in Canada, Toronto, which is also the capital of the province.

Ontario also has the second largest land area, with 1,076,395 km²; only Quebec is larger by size. (Nunavut and Northwest Territories are also larger, but are called territories and not provinces). The province has one of the longest borders with the United States and there are several border crossings including the one at Niagara Falls. Along this border are 4 large lakes called Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, and Lake Superior. They each are partly in Ontario and partly in the United States, and the border runs through them, but not Lake Michigan, which is entirely in the United States. These five lakes are together are called the Great Lakes.

There are a number of symbols that represent the province of Ontario. The flag is red with the British Union Jack in the top left corner and the provincial shield is on the right hand side of the flag. The provincial bird is the loon, and the provincial flower is the trillium. It has three flower petals and it is usually white but some times is pink or purple.

1. ↑ "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, 2016 and 2011 censuses". Statistics Canada. February 6, 2017. Archived from the original on February 11, 2017. Retrieved February 8, 2017.
2. ↑ "Land and freshwater area, by province and territory". Statistics Canada. February 1, 2005. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved August 5, 2012.
3. ↑ "Population estimates, quarterly". Statistics Canada. June 14, 2018. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
4. ↑ "Definition of Ontarian". Collins Online Dictionary. HarperCollins Publishers. Archived from the original on 2013-10-04. Retrieved 2013-10-03.
5. ↑ "About Ontario". Ontario.ca. Queen's Printer for Ontario. 2019-03-07. Archived from the original on 2020-01-08. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
6. ↑ "Gross domestic product, expenditure-based, by province and territory (2015)". Statistics Canada. November 9, 2016. Archived from the original on September 19, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
7. ↑ "Sub-national HDI - Subnational HDI - Global Data Lab". globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2020-06-18.