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Burlington
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city in Halton Region, Ontario, Canada
OverviewAI-generated
Burlington is a city in the Regional Municipality of Halton, Ontario, Canada. It was established in 1874 and has a population of 186,948. The city covers an area of 185.66 square kilometers and sits at an elevation of 74 meters above sea level. It is located next to Lake Ontario and shares a border with Oakville.
The city is twinned with Myrtle Beach and Itabashi. Its official website is burlington.ca.
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Place details
- Locality
- Burlington
- Region
- Ontario
- Country
- Canada
- Population
- 186,948
- Timezone
- America/Toronto
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Canada
- Province
- Ontario
- Region
- Halton
- Mayor
- Marianne Meed Ward
- Governing body
- Burlington City Council
- Mps
- Karina Gould ( Lib ), Adam van Koeverden ( Lib )
- Mpps
- Natalie Pierre ( PC ), Zee Hamid ( PC ), Effie Triantafilopoulos ( PC )
- Total
- 186.12 km (71.86 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 74 m (243 ft)
- Density
- 1,004.4/km (2,601/sq mi)
- Demonym s
- Burlingtonian, Burlingtonite
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−04:00 (EDT)
- Forward sortation area
- L7L to L7T
- Area codes
- 905, 289, 365, and 742
- Highways
- Queen Elizabeth Way , Highway 403 , Highway 407 , Former Highway 2 Former Highway 5
- Website
- burlington .ca
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Brant Street in Downtown Burlington (2009)
Burlington is a city at the west end of Lake Ontario in Ontario, Canada. Part of Halton Region, it borders Hamilton to the south, Milton to the northwest, and Oakville to the northeast. It is part of the Greater Toronto Area, the Hamilton census metropolitan area, and the Golden Horseshoe urban region. Burlington was founded in 1874, and gained city status in 1974. With a population of 186,948 as of 2021, Burlington is the twenty-eighth-most populous municipality in Canada.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Burlington” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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