The Toronto area is also known as the Greater Toronto Area or GTA

Census are always behind the actual (real-time) population, but one could say that there are approximately 6.7 millions people in the Greater Toronto area based on data from The Ontario Ministry of Finance that puts the 2011 population at 6,292,200 while projecting for a population of 6,815,00 for 2016.

The largest urban center in Canada is the city of Toronto and surrounding suburbs: The borders of Toronto and area can be defined by the Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) of Toronto, used for census purposes, or by the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). The population of Toronto and area based on the 2006 Statistics Canada census: City of Toronto: 2,503,281 Toronto Census Metropolitan Area: 5,113,149 Greater Toronto Area: 5,555,912 The Greater Toronto Area consists of the City of Toronto and the following four regional municipalities: 1) Peel Region: 1,159,405 2) York Region: 892,712 3) Durham Region: 561,258 4) Halton Region: 439,256

Greater Toronto area.