Ontario

Ontario
Motto(s): 
Latin: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet
("Loyal she began, loyal she remains")
Coordinates: 49°15′00″N 84°30′00″W / 49.25000°N 84.50000°W / 49.25000; -84.50000
CountryCanada
ConfederationJuly 1, 1867 (1st, with Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick)
Largest cityToronto
Largest metroGreater Toronto Area
Government
 • TypeConstitutional monarchy
 • BodyGovernment of Ontario
 • Lieutenant GovernorEdith Dumont
 • PremierDoug Ford (PC)
LegislatureLegislative Assembly of Ontario
Federal representationParliament of Canada
House seats121 of 338 (35.8%)
Senate seats24 of 105 (22.9%)
Area
 • Total1,076,395 km2 (415,598 sq mi)
 • Land917,741 km2 (354,342 sq mi)
 • Water158,654 km2 (61,257 sq mi)  14.7%
 • RankRanked 4th
 10.8% of Canada
Population
 (2016)
 • Total13,448,494 [1]
 • Estimate 
(2020 Q4)
14,733,119 [3]
 • RankRanked 1st
 • Density14.65/km2 (37.9/sq mi)
DemonymOntarian[4]
Official languagesEnglish (de facto)[5]
GDP
 • Rank1st
 • Total (2015)CA$763.276 billion[6]
 • Per capitaCA$59,879 (7th)
HDI
 • HDI (2018)0.929[7]Very high (3rd)
Time zones
East of 90th meridian westUTC-05:00 (EST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-04:00 (EDT)
West of 90th meridian west, except Atikokan and Pickle LakeUTC-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 codeCA-ON
FlowerWhite trillium
TreeEastern white pine
BirdCommon 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.

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  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.

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