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Greater Toronto Area (GTA) business services & events

Toronto – the name derived from the Huron word for “fishing weir”. 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.

More statistics:

• Waterfront is 76.5 meters above sea level; shoreline stretches 43 km or 138 km when including in the bays and islands
• 307 km of rivers and creeks run through the city
• There are over 1,600 named parks comprised of over 8,000 hectares of land (ravines, valleys, woodlots, parks, beaches, golf courses, destination parks, parkettes) and over 200 km of trails, many of which are suitable for biking and walking.
• Toronto has a total of about 10 million trees, approximately 4 million of which are publicly-owned trees. These include approximately 600,000 street trees (e.g. located on public right of ways on boulevards and commercial trees in sidewalks, etc) and 3.5 million trees in parks, ravines, and other natural areas.

WHAT IS THE GTA
The GTA is NOT a municipality, or political boundary, the GTA is a provincial planning or business area and the municipalities that are included in it can vary depending on who is using the term.