Population:
With a population of more than 12 million, Ontario is home to one in three Canadians.

Size:
Ontario is Canada’s second-largest province, covering more than one million square kilometres (415,000 square miles)

Land:
894,639 square kilometres (344,092 square miles)

Water:
177,398 square kilometres (68,490 square miles), including 250,000 lakes and about one-third of the world’s fresh water.

Capital:
Toronto (pop; 4,000,000 app.), located on Lake Ontario, is Canada’s largest city. It is also the commercial, industrial and financial centre of Canada.

Time Zones:
Most of Ontario is in the Eastern Standard Time Zone. Some of Western/Northern Ontario is in the Central Time Zone.

Official Flower
The official flower of Ontario is the trillium, a delicate white three-petalled flower that grows in profusion in the wild woodlands of the province in early spring.

* Source: http://in.ontariotravel.net/traveltips/factsAboutOntario.aspx

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