The City of Toronto
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The City of Toronto is the largest city in Canada, the provincial capital of Ontario, is 2.48 million people strong, and is the fifth largest municipality in North America in terms of population.
Toronto makes it easy for you to fall in love with it. The hundred cultures that you can find in its many neighbourhoods has definitely earned Toronto the title of "Diverse-City." Although second only to Miami, Florida in the highest percentage of foreign-born residents, Toronto boasts of thoroughly multicultural city by having no single nationality take the bulk of its population. The city's visible minority group is projected to turn into the majority by 2017.
Even its name has an interesting story: it originally referred to The Narrows, the area in water where Lake Simcoe flows into Lake Couchiching. The Mohawk people termed this "tkaronto", which means "where there are trees standing in the water." Lake Simcoe came to be known as Lac de Taronto in a French map in 1680. A few more places were named in association with "Taronto" and by 1720s, including a fort that was east of The Humber River (called Riviere Taronto) was called Fort Toronto.
Pronunciations of the city's name differ from person to person. The nicknames are just as diverse, and perhaps the most famous is "T.O.", short for Toronto, Ontario. Local denizens often pronounce the city as 'torono', dropping the latter T. As for the city's languages, English still dominates while Italian comes in second.