Actual population of Canada's largest cities
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- Discover the agglomerations of Canada their populations. Learn what municipalities are part of Canada's urban agglomerations, which are independent municipalities and their respective populations.
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You said, Toronto GMA 4th largest in population in NORTH AMERICA behind Chicago. Don't forget, Mexico City is in North America, so Toronto would be 5th largest. #1 Mexico City, #2 NYC, #3 LA and #4 Chicago, THEN #5 Toronto.
Dallas-Fort worth is also bigger than Toronto
Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver have linking suburbs and satellite cities around their respective metro areas. That's a nice topic for learning metro areas with core cities, suburbs and satellite cities.
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Very interesting! However at 7:28, it is inaccurate to say that all the skyscrapers are in the city limits of Vancouver. According to the Wikipedia article for tallest buildings in BC, Vancouver actually has fewer skyscrapers than Burnaby. It's a very unknown but true fact.
Thats due to height restrictions in downtown vancouver. The city wants to preserve the mountain views south of downtown, but cities such as Burnaby don't have these restrictions so they have many more skyscrapers. This also makes downtown Vancouver seem larger than it is since these buildings that technically aren't skyscrapers still look like skyscrapers so it still feels like you're in a large city.
Great video! However I'd like to point out that the 2016 population of Edmonton was 932,546 and the CMA was 1,321,426. While not as dramatic as the big three this seems like it should also definitely count as an agglomeration. This actually places it curiously close to the Calgary CMA population of 1,392,609.
I'd like to see a video about the "cities" in the three territories, Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Iqaluit, which are experienced psychologically as "cities" by the people of each territory, because in each case they are overwhelming the largest (and only) urban centre, and because they serve the political functions of capital cities, and are each the economic centres of huge areas. All three are fascinating places, very different from places of the same size in the rest of Canada.
For theast section you should have mentioned halifax, the "city limits" take up almost half of the province
As for Ottawa, you are forgetting Gatineau and Aylmer on the Quebec side of the Ottawa river. The urban sprawl of Metropolitain Ottawa goes beyond provincial boundries - they do not impede it.
Excellent work and presentation! Thank you!
Thank you - as a geography geek I so enjoy your channel and explanations.
Thanks for the video. I just learn something new.
This is the same for many cities around the world.
As a geography geek i really like your content!
Great video buddy
Vancouver’s dominance of tallest skyscrapers is being challenged by Surrey, Burnaby and Coquitlam.
Burnaby is running away on Vancouver in that category. If you combined Brentwood, Metrotown and Southgate, you'd have a superior Calgary like skyline of skyscrapers over downtown Vancouver.
Vancouver still has a multitude of 20+ or even 30+ story buildings over most American cities however.
And Surrey will soon be British Columbia's largest city by population.
In Ottawa you missed out the Gatineau side (Quebec side) Its known as the National Capital Region (NCR) which has a population similar to Calgary about 1.4 million
I did miss that. You are 100% right and should of been mentioned!
I live in Airdrie and drive into Calgary almost every day for work. The traffic isnt bad at all, North city limits to south city limits takes under 30 min. Even during rush hour it only takes about an hour. Traffic really isnt an issue in Calgary compared to Vancouver.
2:05 - What are you counting ahead of Toronto to make it the 4th largest? Mexico City, New York, and Los Angeles are the top 3, so if you're saying Toronto is behind Chicago as well, wouldn't that make it 5th?
either way Dallas is also higher than toronto making it 6th
@@Marquipuchi The city of Dallas is only 1.3 million while the city of Toronto is 2.8 million that is city proper but metro population Dallas-Ft Worth is over 7million peoplle while GTA has 6.7 million
@@keithng2517 this is by metro area so Dallas at 7.9m and Houston 7.4m a (4,5) on us rankings) are the other cities that are above Toronto (6.7m)
Can you do a video about the economy of atlantic provinces?
I love wacthing your canada videos as a candian also can you talk about barrie pls 🥺
With Ottawa you forgot to mention Gatineau
Interesting. Here in Australia we have a different measure of "cities". I live in Perth on the Western coast and, for example, I live in the suburb of Perth which has the postcode of 6000. A "suburb" in Australian English refers to any subdivision of land within a greater urban area so even the downtown area (which we call the CBD or Central Business District) is part of a suburb of the same name. Then there are a few other areas + the CBD which form the "City of Perth" which is known as a Local Government Area (LGA). There are 30 of these which collectively govern over 300 "suburbs" in the Perth Metro(politan) area. When someone says they're "from Perth", they're from somewhere within these 300+ suburbs. Then just outside of this area are some satellite cities/towns which combine to form the Greater Perth statistical area. Apart from these, we also have 2 different divisions for State and Federal elections. The Electoral District of Perth is used for State elections while the Division of Perth is for Federal ones. These each have their own boundaries drawn. So there's the CBD of Perth (downtown area), the suburb of Perth, the City of Perth (local government area), the Electoral District of Perth (state electorate), the Division of Perth (federal electorate), the Perth Metropolitan area, and the Greater Perth area.
But the mayor of Perth/police/firefighters is responsible for which one? The one with 2.1M people?
Have you ever heard of cities in Atlantic Canada?
Two cities ,Beijing and its neighbor Tianjin have a combined population as large as the entire population of Canada.
So, most of Canada's cities, minus the top three metropolitan areas, appear out of nowhere when one drives toward them?
Airdrie has over 80,000 and with built up areas between Calgary & Airdrie, the hub is no longer a Uni-city. Chestermere has 25,000 people and it shares a border with Calgary. South of the city is a municipality (Foothills) that envelopes more than 80,000. Calgary’s CMA is currently over 1,600,000. As well, St. Albert & Sherwood Park share a border with Edmonton. Use all the CMA’s!!
According to the 2021 census Toronto may have passed Chicago in population. It’s really, really close 🙀
not really. Chicago has still much larger metropolitan population than Toronto. city proper population for both cities would be very close though!
@@siadwarsame2045 that isn't entirely true, you see Chicago counts a larger land area, if we were too do the same with toronto, it would have a larger population, the issue is we have a greenbelt that cant be built on but if we count Niagara region, Hamilton, Oshawa and withby, and finally waterloo area and guelph, it would be over 10 million. Including all those would still be a smaller land size then Chicago's metro area. But because Doug ford got re-elected with a majority government, the green belt is no longer a thing and we see tons of development in the areas including a new highway 413. Expect Toronto area to grow a lot in years due to housing shortage caused by the green belt. I think Toronto area could pass LA by 2035 realistically. There's a huge demand too live here and we need more houses to bring the prices down and meet demand. Toronto is more money then LA now. Toronto is like 10x more expensive then Chicago.
@@siycles Greater Toronto includes the city itself and 4 regions. (Durham, York, Halton and Peel).
This takes in a lot, but not as far as Hamilton, always counted as a separate city. Barrie as well. And of course, Niagara et al is a completely separate region.
As to Chicago - yeah, the Greater Chicago Area is substantially higher populated than Toronto. Chicago until the 1950's was America's Second City, which meant that it had been the second largest after New York City for quite awhile. Which means it had a long running start on Toronto. In the 1920s/ 1930s Chicago was huge by comparison, back when Toronto was a pipsqueak. Toronto has had rapid growth patterns over roughly the past 40 years, but Chicago never stopped growing.
And if you come around the south side of Lake Michigan, through Gary Indiana into the south end of what would soon be the city of Chicago, it just "feels' like a great big city, in a way that Toronto still does not.
Even though Toronto's suburban and exurban sprawl is off the charts (massive immigrations settling out there) this is still really low-density housing by design. Massively car-dependent, fuel-sucking, lousy mass transit or none at all, and a model that just chews through what is actually valuable farmland like a family of weasels in a giant chicken factory farm henhouse.
We um, apparently figure we'll be shopping in our agricultural products from California forever. Lotsa luck with that one.
True enough that the built Southern Ontario urban conglomeration (even London, Hell- let's throw in Muskoka cottage country, especially in the good old summertime) would add up to something close to 30% of the population of the entire country of Canada.
Which is kind of like a southern England motif. Almost.
I always get a kick out the fact that Canadians appear to be the most ferociously social people on the planet. I mean, they have this chunk of land that adds up to the world's second largest country by land area. That's a lot of land. And they squash their entire bunch of selves on less than one percent of the total square mileage. And what's even funnier is that something between two thirds and three quarters of them are within a 100 miles of the American border. Can't get enough of that Sugar Crisp.
But of course it's that southern warmth. Nobody much wants to live in fifty below zero territory. Can't say I blame them.
But as a long time Torontonian, I have some deep dark reservations about the greater city of Toronto's growth patterns. Not sure I want to see it turn into a Lagos, or Sao Paulo, or Mexico City, or Tokyo. No reflection at all on the ethnicity of the incoming immigration. More a reflection on the concept of the "mega-city." We are already a solid 3 decades behind in meaningful transit plans that do not even take into account that the population that lives in the 4 regions surrounding the city of Toronto proper, now exceed the total population of that city of Toronto proper, itself (and have done so for almost a decade, now.)
Not only is that a lot of super-sprawl, it's also a lot of super-sprawl politics. Which is radically different from true urban politics. Suburb-mindset does not love downtown urban at all. There is a lot of vexation of the spirit, wailing, hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth going on with those burbies when attempting to deal with urban core transportation realities (especially for those who actually do the drive into downtown Toronto..)
No doubt many of them would like to see the joint blanketed with 16-lane highway arterials, corridors, tunnels, and whatnot.
But of course that would kill much, many, if not most of the reasons why they fight their way downtown in the first place.
Still, it is a livable city. Almost cute in its retained quaintness. Especially the hints that it really loves to pretend it's New York City at times. Well, no. Don't give up your day job.
@@siycles no Chicago is bigger
@@mrbrainbob5320 Toronto is a better place to be at this point in time, Chicago has been in decline for years now.
Edmonton metro estimated 2022 population is 1.5M people.
The population of the city of Surrey, BC is projected to be greater then the City of Vancouver by 2030.
A San fransisco/San Jose situation
unfortunate that the 2021 stats dropped just before this was uploaded.
How or who draws boundaries of GTA
The only way for Vancouver to exceed 1 million is for it to have Hong Kong style population density by razing the low density neighborhoods and replacing them with high rise condos.
Actually Edmonton has larger CMA population than Calgary. Calgary however has a slightly larger city proper population than Edmonton.
Also, Edmonton city proper has has over a million inhabitants and is in fact bigger than Ottawa which has a little over 900k inhabitants.
so these are the 5 largest cities in Canada in 2022:
1-Toronto
2-Montreal
3-Vancouver
4-Calgary
5-Edmonton
Metro Ottawa has over a million people when you include Gatineau on the Quebec side of the Ottawa River. Provincial boundries play no part in impeding the urban sprawl of Metro Ottawa.
Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, have been battling for 4,5,6 for the last 10 years. Although I think Calgary growth has been pretty immense in the last year and half. It probably has a metro pop. of 1.7 million now. Edmonton around 1.5, and Ottawa 1.4. There's 40 million people in the country now. Everyone is growing.
urbanization and sprawling leads to multiple megacities
Uh…Mexico City???
6th* after DFW
hey, you miss edmonton and calgary... ottawa? just skip that.
Toronto passed Chicago.
Mexico City
New York City
Los Angeles
Toronto
Chicago
LOL Chicago has almost 10 million people in its metropolitan area, while Toronto has 6.5 million people. Toronto would be closer to Chicago in city population though.
so it goes something like this:
Mexico City
New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
Toronto
@@siadwarsame2045 "siad warsame 56 minutes ago LOL Chicago has almost 10 million people in its metropolitan area, while Toronto has 6.5 million people. Toronto would be closer to Chicago in city population though.
so it goes something like this:
Mexico City
New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
Toronto"
-LOL (was that really needed? setting the tone to be a douchecanoe?) The so-called Chicago metropolitan area is pegged at 28,120 km² and includes two other states. The Toronto metropolitan area only includes 7,123.64 km2. It doesn't add in the plenty of population centres nearby it or extra land to try to pretend to be 10 million people (actually its still only 9.5 million).
Still Mexico City, NYC, LA, TO, CH. But then again, some of these others seem to suck in very large geographic areas as well..
@@j2174 thats because Canada is empty barely any one lives there
@@mrbrainbob5320 What are you even replying to? There are nearly 40 million people in Canada. Wtf are you talking about? Lmfao. And its highly urbanised. Similar % as US, Europe and other developed nations.
Quebec city does have an agglomeration as well as Saguenay, Lévis, Sherbrooke, also, Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto are not "the exemption" you are talking about, this is quite ignorant.
This is not a good take on Mississauga and the GTA
Very small
The "urban" center of Toronto is about 30% of the size of the city proper. The other 70% is decidedly suburban. Suburban by definition and design is decidedly low-density. Which of course, means that it takes a lot of acreage to add up any substantial population figures. When it comes to the true downtown core, the only factor that has created real population growth, is of course, the forest of lousy cheap glass and steel skinny minnie condo towers. Sold like hotcakes to a lot of people who bought for equity reasons, and who couldn't afford houses in the city much at all, except way out in god's country where they don't want to be. Hence, the tradeoff. Downtown, only in a breadbasket shoebox, instead of a house with 5 or 6 times the square footage.
Getting a true read on urban population is kind of ridiculous unless you take into account the total sprawled suburban and exurban populations. Using this method, Canada has roughly 10 cities that total a million or more people (including Mississauga itself, which often just gets swallowed up inside the GTA). Greater Toronto area.
But I've read measurement stats for American cities like San Francisco, which come in at well under a million. So this isn't uncommon in America either. Frisco is funny, because it's kind of hemmed in by water.
People in Mississauga and surrounding areas don't need to go to Toronto for anything 🤣
Yup. Leaf games can be watched on TV...
GTA is about 6 million Ontario whole is just 8 million
Ontario population is over 15 million
Typical Canadian view: The east coast does not rate mentioning. Canada begins in BC and ends in Quebec. I sometimes wonder why the 4 eastern most, and mainly southern most, provinces feel so strongly Canadian???? Go figure???
Not certain what point you're trying to make?
The video was primarily looking at the largest cities. Check populations of city proper and CMA in the Maritimes.
The "southern most" is actually the majority of Ontario's population. NB, PEI, and NS are closer to the border line of BC and the prairies.
"Canada's largest cities"
It's right in the title.
You can fit the total population of all 4 Atlantic Provinces into Toronto easily. They’re not significant in terms of population. The Eastern Provinces by the way are not more Southern then Ontario. Southern Ontario goes so far South it crosses the Northern Californian border.
Burlington is bigger than Oakville. Burlington is a City proper ( over 100k population)Oakville is under 100,000 officially and is classified as a Town.
You're wrong about prairie cities being more sprawling. The main 5 are all denser then Quebec City, Victoria, and Halifax. And Edmonton is the only one that isn't more dense then Ottawa.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_population_centres_in_Canada