Canada Statistics

Canada's Cities

Canada’s largest city is Toronto Ontario, which has more than 5.1 million people in the metropolitan area. Following close behind is Montreal Quebec, which has 3.6 million people, and this makes it the second-largest French-speaking city in the Western world.

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Canadian City Facts

Fast facts on Canadian cities:

paragraph arrow 60 places in Canada have more than 50,000 people.

paragraph arrow Canada has 100 population centers or metropolitan areas with more than 23,000 people.

paragraph arrow The largest city on the West coast of Canada is Vancouver with 2,116,581 people.

paragraph arrow The largest city in the prairie region is Calgary Alberta with 1,079,310 citizens.

paragraph arrow The East coast of Canada has smaller cities with the largest being Halifax Nova Scotia with 372,858 total people.


Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto are the favourite places for new immigrants as the existing immigrant populations there are large and well established. These three areas continue to lead Canada in total growth.