Toronto, capital city of the province of Ontario, Canada, located on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. Toronto has the largest metropolitan area in Canada and is the financial center of the country. The city is part of the Golden Horseshoe, a highly urbanized and industrialized region extending around the west end of Lake Ontario. In the 1990s Toronto was ranked among the top ten world cities, both in livability and as a place to do business.
Toronto has a climate with strong seasonal variations, which are tempered somewhat by the presence of the lake. Summers are warm and humid, and the temperature is often below freezing in the winter. In July the mean temperature ranges from 27° C to 18° C (80° F to 64° F), in January from -1° C to -8° C (30° F to 18° F).Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2001
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