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Canada: cities by population

Canada has a population of 37,058,856, with Ottawa as its capital. The 50 largest of its 1,936 recorded towns and cities, ranked.

Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are GeoNames country data. Sources & method.

#	Place	Region	Population
1	Toronto	Ontario	2,794,356
2	Montréal	Quebec	1,762,949
3	Calgary	Alberta	1,306,784
4	Ottawa	Ontario	1,017,449
5	Edmonton	Alberta	1,010,899
6	Winnipeg	Manitoba	749,607
7	Mississauga	Ontario	717,961
8	Vancouver	British Columbia	662,248
9	Brampton	Ontario	656,480
10	Hamilton	Ontario	569,353
11	Surrey	British Columbia	568,322
12	Québec	Quebec	531,902
13	Halifax	Nova Scotia	471,559
14	Laval	Quebec	438,366
15	London	Ontario	422,324
16	Etobicoke	Ontario	365,000
17	Markham	Ontario	338,503
18	Vaughan	Ontario	323,103
19	Gatineau	Quebec	300,045
20	Victoria	British Columbia	289,625
21	Saskatoon	Saskatchewan	266,141
22	Kitchener	Ontario	256,885
23	Burnaby	British Columbia	249,125
24	Windsor	Ontario	229,660
25	Longueuil	Quebec	229,330
26	Regina	Saskatchewan	226,404
27	Oakville	Ontario	213,759
28	Richmond	British Columbia	209,937
29	Richmond Hill	Ontario	202,022
30	Burlington	Ontario	186,948
31	Nepean	Ontario	180,000
32	Oshawa	Ontario	175,383
33	Greater Sudbury	Ontario	166,004
34	Gloucester	Ontario	150,012
35	Saguenay	Quebec	148,886
36	Coquitlam	British Columbia	148,625
37	Barrie	Ontario	147,829
38	Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie	Quebec	146,501
39	Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension	Quebec	144,814
40	Kelowna	British Columbia	144,576
41	Trois-Rivières	Quebec	144,472
42	Guelph	Ontario	143,740
43	Lévis	Quebec	143,414
44	Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve	Quebec	142,753
45	Abbotsford	British Columbia	141,397
46	Whitby	Ontario	138,501
47	St. Catharines	Ontario	136,803
48	Milton	Ontario	132,979
49	Langley	British Columbia	132,603
50	Kingston	Ontario	132,485

Twenty years earlier: Canada in the 2005 World Gazetteer — population then 32,050,369.