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Ontario is the most populous and second-largest in area of Canada 's ten Provinces . It is found in east-central Canada. Its capital is Toronto . Ottawa , the capital of Canada, is also located in Ontario. As of July 1, 2005 there are 12,541,410 Ontarians (residents of Ontario), representing approximately 37.9% of the total Canadian population and an area of 1,076,395 km&2 (415,598 sq. mi.). GEOGRAPHY Ontario is bounded on the north by Hudson Bay and James Bay , on the east by Quebec , on the west by Manitoba , and on the south by the American states of Minnesota , Michigan , Ohio , Pennsylvania and New York . Ontario's long American border is formed almost entirely by lakes and rivers, starting in Lake Of The Woods and continuing to the Saint Lawrence River near Cornwall ; it passes through the four Great Lakes on which Ontario has coastline, namely Lakes Superior , Huron (which includes Georgian Bay ), Erie , and Ontario (for which the province is named; the name Ontario itself is a corruption of the Iroquois word "Onitariio" meaning "beautiful lake" or "Kanadario", variously translated as "beautiful water"). There are approximately 250,000 lakes and over 100,000 Kilometres (62,000 Mi ) of rivers in the province. The province consists of three main geographical regions:
Despite the absence of any mountainous terrain in the province, there are upland regions within the Canadian Shield which traverses the province from northwest to southeast and above the Niagara Escarpment in the south. The highest point is Ishpantina Ridge at 693m a.s.l. located in Northeatsern Ontario. The Carolinian Forest zone covers most of the southwestern section, its northern extent is parts of the Greater Toronto Area at the western end of Lake Ontario . The most significant geographic feature in the south is the Niagara Escarpment which runs from Niagara Falls to Tobermory . The Saint Lawrence Seaway allows navigation to and from the Atlantic Ocean as far inland as Thunder Bay in Northwestern Ontario . Northern Ontario occupies roughly 85% of the surface area of the province; conversely Southern Ontario contains 94% of the population (see article Geography Of Canada ). Point Pelee National Park is a peninsula in southwestern Ontario (near Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan ) that extends into Lake Erie and is the part of Canada's mainland furthest south. Pelee Island in Lake Erie is even further south. Both are south of 42°N – slighty further south than the northern border of California . DEMOGRAPHICS The major racial/ethnic groups in Ontario are:
The major Religious Groups in Ontario are:
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