- Ontario includes the mineral-rich Canadian Shield, a tremendous amount of forests, and more than 250,000 lakes.
- It is the second-largest province in Canada and covers more than 415,000 square miles - larger than Spain and France combined.
- More than one third of Canadians live in Ontario.
- Ontario is home to 250,000 lakes, which makes up about one-fifth of the world’s freshwater.
- Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron is the world's largest freshwater island, featuring its own lakes and rivers.
- The Sudbury Basin is the third-largest known asteroid impact crater on Earth, formed over 1.8 billion years ago.
- The province stretches from the Arctic tundra in the north to Carolinian forests in the south, hosting animals ranging from polar bears to massasauga rattlesnakes.
- Toronto's CN Tower was the world's tallest freestanding structure until 2007, standing at 553 meters (1,815 feet).
- Polar Bear Provincial Park is the largest park in Ontario. It has no visitor facilities, can only be reached by air, and special permission is required before visiting it. Several hundred polar bears migrate through the area.
- Ottawa is the Capitol of Canada and is in Ontario - the word "Ottawa" comes from the Algonquin word adawe – which means to trade.
- Niagara Falls in Ontario and is made up of three separate waterfalls, which include the American Falls, the Bridal Veil Falls, and Horseshoe Falls, which is the largest of them all.
- Under Ontario traffic laws, it is illegal to operate a horse-drawn sleigh on public roads with fewer than two sleigh bells attached to it.
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