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	At 1,815 feet (553m) the CN Tower dominates Toronto's skyline. The tower's owners bill it as the world's tallest building, though such designations are subject to hotly disputed structural definitions. Photograph by Walter Bibikow/Taxi/Getty Images

Toronto, Canada Information and History

LAKESIDE RAINBOW

Canada's largest city and commercial center has been transformed by a building spike, epitomized in the 533-meter CN Tower, and by massive immigration. Nearly half the population has origins in a hundred countries, changing the city's image from "white bread" to kaleidoscope. A prime location for movie shoots, Toronto plays the role of other cities with panache.

ECONOMY
Finance, shipping, slaughtering/meatpacking, printing and publishing, aircraft, farm implements, electrical machinery, metal products, high-tech business, tourism.

Text source: National Geographic Atlas of the World, Eighth Edition, 2004

Toronto, Canada Fast Facts
Population City proper 2,481,494 Metro area 5,060,000 Elevation 106 meters (347 feet) Temperature Jan. -3°/-11°C (28°/12°F); July 27°/14°C (80°/58°F) Average daily High/Low °C (°F)	Rainfall January 46 (1.8); July 77 (3) Average monthly mm (inches) Time Zone -5 hours UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)

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