page_title: Toronto
section_title: Cityscape
hierarchical_section_title: Toronto / Cityscape
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of the Toronto skyline at sunset taken from the Snake Islands of the Toronto Islands. This is a crop of a larger panorama. Polski: Panorama Toronto o&#160;zachodzie Słońca widziana z&#160;Wysp Torontońskich na&#160;jeziorze Ontario. বাংলা: টরন্টো দ্বীপপুঞ্জ থেকে দেখা টরন্টোর আকাশে সূর্যাস্তের বিস্তৃত দৃশ্য। Čeština: Panoráma kanadského Toronta během západu slunce, snímek ze skupiny ostrůvků Toronto Islands v jezeře Ontario. Español: Vista panorámica de Toronto durante la puesta del sol. Magyar: Toronto panorámája napnyugtakor a Toronto-szigetekről nézve Македонски: Квечерина над градот Торонто. Nederlands: Skyline van de Canadese stad Toronto bij zonsondergang Português: Pôr do sol na cidade de Toronto visto das Toronto Islands, Canadá.
context_page_description: Toronto is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,731,571 in 2016, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,245,438 people surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2016 population of 6,417,516. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.
  People have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York and suffered heavy damage by American troops. York was renamed and incorporated in 1834 as the city of Toronto.
caption: Toronto skyline at dusk, from Toronto Harbour looking north
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