page_title: List of neighbourhoods in Toronto
section_title: Downtown Core (Central)
hierarchical_section_title: List of neighbourhoods in Toronto / Neighbourhoods by district / Old Toronto / Downtown Core (Central)
caption_attribution_description: I took this photo in Cabbagetown, Toronto in Summer 2004
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: Alexandra Park
  The Annex
  Baldwin Village
  Cabbagetown
  CityPlace
  Chinatown
  Church and Wellesley
  Corktown
  Discovery District
  Distillery District
  Entertainment District
   
  East Bayfront
  Fashion District
  Financial District
  Garden District
  Grange Park
  Harbord Village
  Harbourfront
  Kensington Market
  Little Japan
  Moss Park
  Old Town
   
  Quayside (future planned neighbourhood)
  Queen Street West
  Regent Park
  South Core
  St. James Town
  St. Lawrence
  Toronto Islands
  Trefann Court
  University (includes Huron–Sussex)
  Yorkville
caption: Old newspaper office in Cabbagetown
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