Think you know Toronto? Let’s see how much you know. We have gathered 45 interesting fun Toronto facts from a variety of topics.

 Geographic Facts

1. Toronto covers 641 sq km and stretches 43 km from east to west and 21 km from north to south at its longest points. The perimeter is approximately 180 km.

2. One quarter of Canada’s population lives within a 160 km radius of Toronto

3. Toronto is in Southern Ontario which has shorelines on four of the five, Great Lakes and located, further south than ten of the northern states of the USA.

4. Toronto’s waterfront is 76.5 meters above sea level; shoreline stretches 43 km (as the crow flies) or 138 km if you factor in the bays and islands

5. Highest point is 209 m (at intersection of Steeles Ave West and Keele St)

6. Most northerly point is the intersection of Steeles Ave E. and Pickering Town Line

7. Most southerly point is Lake Ontario’s shoreline at the border between Toronto and Mississauga

8. Most easterly point is the meeting of the Rouge River and shoreline of Lake Ontario

9. Most westerly point is the intersection of Steeles Ave W. and Albion Road

10. Toronto is in plant hardiness zone 6, and on the eastern edge of the Carolinian Forest zone

11. There are 1500 parks and 8,000 hectares of parklands – (ravines, valleys, woodlots, waterfront natural areas, parks and farmland), or 18.1 per cent of city’s area, there are also 187 km of bike paths, 7.8 km of pedestrian paths, and 3 million publicly owned trees

Economic Facts

1. Toronto is the largest and most important financial centre in all of Canada and the fourth largest in North America. Only New York city, Chicago and Los Angeles are larger.

2. Financial centre of Canada, 3rd largest in North America, employing 205,000 in financial sector

3. Toronto is home to Canada’s 5 largest banks, 50 foreign bank subsidiaries and branches, and 112 securities firms.

4. The film industry supports 28,000 jobs in Toronto and annually contributes $1.5 billion to the economy

5. Toronto’s tourism industry generated $3.34 billion in direct expenditures in the year 2000

6. There are about 87,900 tourism related jobs in Toronto

City Facts

1. Toronto is Canada’s largest city and home to over Toronto  5.7 million people

2. Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario

3. Toronto is the largest financial centre in Canada.

4. There are 100 + languages spoken throughout the city of Toronto

5. Just over 30 per cent of Toronto residents speak a language other than English or French at home.

6. Over half of Toronto’s labour force has a university degree or college diploma

7. With it’s world class tourist attractions Toronto is Canada’s number one tourist destination

8. Toronto residents hold more university educations than in any other country, in the world, based on percentage of population. Source OECD – 2003

9. 180 million customers live and work within a day’s drive of Toronto, including 125 million Americans or roughly 40 per cent of the U.S. population.