page_title: List of neighbourhoods in Toronto
section_title: West End
hierarchical_section_title: List of neighbourhoods in Toronto / Neighbourhoods by district / Old Toronto / West End
caption_attribution_description: English: Example of a en:Bay-and-gable house in Little Italy
context_page_description: The strength and vitality of the many neighbourhoods that make up Toronto, Ontario, Canada has earned the city its unofficial nickname of "the city of neighbourhoods." There are 140 neighbourhoods officially recognized by the City of Toronto and upwards of 240 official and unofficial neighbourhoods within the city's boundaries. Before 1998, Toronto was a much smaller municipality and formed part of Metropolitan Toronto. When the city amalgamated that year, Toronto grew to encompass the former municipalities of York, East York, North York, Etobicoke, and Scarborough. Each of these former municipalities still maintains, to a certain degree, its own distinct identity, and the names of these municipalities are still used by their residents, sometimes for disambiguation purposes as amalgamation resulted in duplicated street names. The area known as Toronto before the amalgamation is sometimes called the "old" City of Toronto, the Central District or simply "Downtown".
  The "former" City of Toronto is, by far, the most populous and densest part of the city. It is also the business and administrative centre of the city.
context_section_description: Beaconsfield Village
  Bloor West Village
  Bracondale Hill
  Brockton Village
  Carleton Village
  Corso Italia
  Davenport
  Dovercourt Park
  Dufferin Grove
  Earlscourt
   
  Fort York
  High Park
  The Junction (formerly West Toronto; a short section on Dundas Street also contains Little Malta)
  Junction Triangle
  Koreatown
  Liberty Village
  Little Italy
  Little Portugal
  Little Tibet
  Mirvish Village
   
  Niagara
  Ordinance Triangle
  Palmerston
  Parkdale
  Queen Street West
  Regal Heights
  Roncesvalles
  Runnymede
  Seaton Village
  Swansea
  Trinity–Bellwoods
  Wallace Emerson
caption: Bay-and-gable houses in Little Italy
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