Province
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Coordinates: 49°15′00″N 84°30′00″W / 49.25000°N 84.50000°W / 49.25000; -84.50000Coordinates: 49°15′00″N 84°30′00″W / 49.25000°N 84.50000°W / 49.25000; -84.50000
Country	Canada
Confederation	July 1, 1867 (1st, with Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick)
Largest city	Toronto
Largest metro	Greater Toronto Area
Government
• Type	Constitutional monarchy
• Body	Government of Ontario
• Lieutenant Governor	Edith Dumont
• Premier	Doug Ford (PC)
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Federal representation	Parliament of Canada
House seats	121 of 338 (35.8%)
Senate seats	24 of 105 (22.9%)
Area
• Total	1,076,395 km2 (415,598 sq mi)
• Land	917,741 km2 (354,342 sq mi)
• Water	158,654 km2 (61,257 sq mi)  14.7%
• Rank	Ranked 4th
	10.8% of Canada
Population  (2016)
• Total	13,448,494
• Estimate  (2020 Q4)	14,733,119
• Rank	Ranked 1st
• Density	14.65/km2 (37.9/sq mi)
GDP
• Rank	1st
• Total (2015)	CA$763.276 billion
• Per capita	CA$59,879 (7th)
HDI
• HDI (2018)	0.929 — Very high (3rd)
Time zones
East of 90th meridian west	UTC-05:00 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-04:00 (EDT)
West of 90th meridian west, except Atikokan and Pickle Lake	UTC-06:00 (CST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-05:00 (CDT)
Atikokan and Pickle Lake (No DST)	UTC-05:00 (EST)
Postal abbr.	ON
Postal code prefix	K L M N P
ISO 3166 code	CA-ON
Flower	White trillium
Tree	Eastern white pine
Bird	Common loon
Rankings include all provinces and territories

Ontario is a province of Canada. It is in the eastern half of Canada, between Manitoba and Quebec. Ontario has the most people of any province, with 13,150,000 in 2009, and is home to the biggest city in Canada, Toronto, which is also the capital of the province.