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100 Biggest Cities in Canada on a Map

Can you name the 100 biggest cities in Canada? Every time you guess a city it will be filled in on the map!
By urban area as per Statistics Canada
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Quiz by Jiaozira
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Last updated: August 29, 2024
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First submittedFebruary 2, 2019
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City
5.43 m
Toronto
3.52 m
Montreal
2.64 m
Vancouver
1.48 m
Ottawa-Gatineau
1.48 m
Calgary
1.41 m
Edmonton
839 k
Quebec City
834 k
Winnipeg
785 k
Hamilton
575 k
Kitchener-Cambridge-
Waterloo
543 k
London
465 k
Halifax
433 k
St. Catharines-Niagara
422 k
Windsor
415 k
Oshawa
397 k
Victoria
317 k
Saskatoon
249 k
Regina
227 k
Sherbrooke
222 k
Kelowna
212 k
Barrie
212 k
St. John's
195 k
Abbotsford-Mission
172 k
Kingston
170 k
Greater Sudbury
165 k
Guelph
161 k
Saguenay
161 k
Trois-Rivières
157 k
Moncton
144 k
Brantford
130 k
Saint John
128 k
Peterborough
123 k
Lethbridge
123 k
Thunder Bay
115 k
Nanaimo
114 k
Kamloops
113 k
Chilliwack
111 k
Belleville-Quinte West
108 k
Fredericton
104 k
Chatham-Kent (Chatham)
101 k
Drummondville
100 k
Red Deer
98.3 k
Cape Breton (Sydney)
97.5 k
Sarnia
90.8 k
Granby
89.4 k
Prince George
79.2 k
Kawartha Lakes (Lindsay)
78.8 k
Charlottetown
76.7 k
Sault Ste. Marie
76.3 k
Medicine Hat
Pop
City
73.8 k
Wood Buffalo (Fort McMurray)
71.7 k
North Bay
67.4 k
Norfolk (Simcoe)
67.0 k
Vernon
64.1 k
Grande Prairie
63.2 k
Courtenay
61.4 k
Cornwall
59.9 k
Saint-Hyacinthe
54.2 k
Brandon
53.9 k
Rimouski
52.9 k
Victoriaville
52.7 k
Joliette
49.6 k
Shawinigan
47.5 k
Duncan
47.3 k
Penticton
46.7 k
Woodstock
46.1 k
Truro
45.7 k
Prince Albert
42.7 k
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield
42.3 k
Rouyn-Noranda
41.3 k
Sorel-Tracy
41.1 k
Timmins
40.7 k
Campbell River
36.5 k
Lloydminster
34.8 k
Moose Jaw
34.8 k
Saint-Georges
34.3 k
New Glasgow
34.0 k
Val-d'Or
33.4 k
Orillia
33.2 k
Stratford
32.7 k
Owen Sound
32.6 k
Winkler
31.9 k
Whitehorse
31.6 k
Brockville
31.3 k
Bathurst
31.0 k
Centre Wellington (Fergus)
31.0 k
Parksville
30.4 k
Okotoks
30.3 k
Alma
30.0 k
Rivière-du-Loup
29.7 k
Corner Brook
28.7 k
Fort St. John
28.2 k
Thetford Mines
27.8 k
Midland
27.7 k
Sept-Îles
27.5 k
Miramichi
27.0 k
Cranbrook
26.9 k
Kentville
26.6 k
Baie-Comeau
25.7 k
Port Alberni
Province
# of cities
Ontario
31
Quebec
23
British Columbia
17
Alberta
9
New Brunswick
5
Nova Scotia
5
Saskatchewan
5
Manitoba
3
Newfoundland
and Labrador
2
Prince Edward Island
1
Yukon
1
Northwest Territories
0
Nunavut
0
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50 Comments
Jiaozira
+8
Level 71
Oct 12, 2020
Edited to include proportional city dots. I hope this improves the quiz! I plan to update all 100 Cities on the Map Quizzes in this style, so stay tuned! Also fixed the position of a couple cities in Southern Ontario.
Jiaozira
+2
Level 71
Aug 28, 2024
Edit: I updated the quiz to include a new map and use metropolitan (urban area) population. I was very reluctant to use this form of measurement because it leads to certain counties being classified as cities, but overall it removed many obscure suburbs from the quiz and actually balanced the cities a little better between the provinces.

For the counties which are included, I put their principle city in brackets. Most of these principal cities have enough people in them to make the quiz regardless.

Thanks for playing!

scambigol
+3
Level 77
Feb 2, 2019
Nice! How do you make these maps? Do you put the dots manually or do you convert them from lat/long? I thought of a variation where dots of large cities are shown at the start but as you guess them the dots of smaller cities are revealed
Jiaozira
+2
Level 71
Feb 2, 2019
Thanks! I put the dots on manually, and then un-fill them. That's a good idea actually, and you are free to use any of my maps to make that! I cannot do anything much myself since I do each process by hand, just filling in the data takes ages...
scambigol
+2
Level 77
Feb 4, 2019
Thanks a lot! I just submitted a variation of your 100 Italian cities quiz... I used that one as, being featured, I could quickly copy the quiz and check the 'name' of each dot corresponding to each city. I also added some type-ins. Thanks again!!
Jiaozira
+2
Level 71
Feb 4, 2019
Don't mention it!! I am happy to see my maps go to good use. Feel free to use other maps as well, I can always send the link.
Kaokor
+2
Level 33
Mar 6, 2019
Could you put these into a series?
Jiaozira
+2
Level 71
Apr 28, 2019
Good idea!
Bigmacb
+3
Level 14
Mar 17, 2020
Windsor is on the south side of Lake St Clair
Jiaozira
+2
Level 71
Oct 12, 2020
Fixed. Also fixed the position of Welland-Pelham. Thank you.
jjoonn
+3
Level 51
Jan 25, 2021
the proportion of the saint-george dot seems off. (yeah i know who cares haha). Great quizz!
Jiaozira
+2
Level 71
Jan 25, 2021
Thanks! And I care - to be fixed soon - although Saint-Georges is a right metropolis in it's own right :)
jjoonn
+3
Level 51
Jan 28, 2021
if you care that much i just realised that val d'or is also too big ^^
Jiaozira
+2
Level 71
Jan 28, 2021
Both are fixed now, thank you for the heads up.
MrDuck
+2
Level 22
Feb 17, 2021
Aren't the cities outside of Toronto like Vaughan and Brampton also major cities?
Jiaozira
+2
Level 71
Feb 17, 2021
The quiz uses metro population, meaning that cities connected to larger ones such as Vaughan and Brampton are considered a part of Toronto. Milton and Kanata are only seperated from Toronto and Ottawa (respectively) because they have fields between them and their parent city, despite being suburbs.
sumguy
+3
Level 85
Sep 15, 2021
That's a bizarrely arbitrary rule, and you didn't even mention it in the caveats. It didn't occur to me to try Kanata because it's part of the City of Ottawa. Not even the Ottawa CMA, but part of the city proper! It was amalgamated. By including the community of Kanata, the people of Kanata are counted twice in this quiz. And if you're going to list Kanata because of its separation from the rest of the city by the Greenbelt, then you should also add Orleans, Barrhaven, and Stittsville.

The city of Airdrie is being counted twice since it's part of the Calgary CMA but, unlike Kanata, it is actually a city. Likewise, Milton is counted twice, since it's part of the Toronto CMA. White Rock is in Metro Vancouver. Spruce Grove is in Metro Edmonton. Georgetown is not a city, having been amalgamated into the town of Halton Hills which, in turn, is in Metro Toronto. Quispamsis-Rothesay is not a census agglomeration, and I can't find any reference to those two cities being officially combined.

sumguy
+1
Level 85
Sep 15, 2021
Also, you're listing the population for just the city of Ottawa, but not including Gatineau as a separate city. Yes, Gatineau is part of the Ottawa-Gatineau population centre, but if you're including it as part of Ottawa, then Ottawa's population should be 1.32 m. Things get messy when you include or exclude cities or communities in your definition of population centres, but don't adjust their populations to match those definitions.
Jiaozira
+1
Level 71
Sep 16, 2021
Kanata is not counted in the figures for Ottawa in this quiz, as all populations are consistent as per Statistics Canada. Ottawa's population here does include Gatineau, but since so much of Ottawa Proper is rural/disconnected from the city core then Ottawa looses a lot of her population at the same time. I will include the source in the caveats, though, thanks!
Jiaozira
+1
Level 71
Sep 16, 2021
I will continue to use population-centres in future because it goes hand-in-hand with what I'd consider a city's limit. However I will also consider greying out controversial cities like Kanata or maybe even White Rock (depending how I'm feeling). When you get further down the list you have to contend with even more oddities but overall the list is pretty clean for the top 200 or so population-centres.
sumguy
+1
Level 85
Dec 21, 2021
Stats Canada's list doesn't make any sense. They list Kanata but not Orleans (116,688). Have you ever driven to Orleans on the Queensway? The "rural gap" (Green Belt) between Gloucester and Orleans is WAY bigger than the gap between Bells Corners and Kanata. If Kanata is a population center, Orleans is a population center.

It's impossible that they're only coming up with 989,567 for Ottawa-Gatineau without removing Orleans, Barrhaven, and Stittsville, and yet they aren't listed separately. Whatever arbitrary rules they used for their definition need to be re-evaluated. This list is so laughably awful, it's not worth using.

Jiaozira
+1
Level 71
Dec 21, 2021
If it is so awful, I suggest you have a word with Statistics Canada then. Here is what the borders of Ottawa are according to them, and here is the list in full. It's either this or I use city-proper population, and half of the cities here will be suburbs on Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. Otherwise, I can use metro figures which groups massive, county-sized areas together. Neither option is particularly attractive.
CaoMaru
+2
Level 49
Mar 8, 2022
Personally, I like the way this quiz is done. Yes, there are some oddities in it, but it follows a specific organization's definitions - Stats Canada - so there's no grey areas really, and it's nice that smaller places are included, rather than the list being entirely suburbs, which is really boring.
Jiaozira
+1
Level 71
Mar 8, 2022
@CaoMaru I appreciate this comment, I have the same opinions about suburbs too.

I apologise to anyone if I come off as defensive here, it's just there are only three different ways to measure city populations in Canada and so I am forced to make decisions. I am passionate enough that I could go and create my own list, but it would take more time than I currently have and could (at least theoretically) be subject to more scrutiny than I could ever defend.

brantastic
+4
Level 53
Feb 19, 2021
White Rock is a part of Metro Vancouver and not its own metro area.
Jiaozira
+2
Level 71
Feb 19, 2021
I should specify that these are population centres, rather than true metro areas. The Canadian government will divide metro areas when there is rural area inbetween the suburb and the city proper. In the case of White Rock it is seperated from Vancouver by fields.
PantsLobbyist
+3
Level 96
Sep 14, 2021
If that's the case, Richmond and Surrey should not be part of the Vancouver metro, and there is no rural divide between Surrey and White Rock
Jiaozira
+1
Level 71
Sep 15, 2021
South Surrey is included in with White Rock, while the majority of the rest of Surrey is attatched to Vancouver's urban sprawl and thus included in Vancouver's total population. See here for more details. Population-centre data isn't perfect but it's probably the best method we have of comparing Canadian cities!
sumguy
+2
Level 85
Sep 15, 2021
If you should specify it, then you should specify it in the caveats, not the comments. Better yet, just don't do it. Use the official definitions for Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations to avoid having to justify your decisions about what constitutes a "population centre". If you're going to use metro population, as you claim in the caveats, then keep it simple and uncontroversial by using this list.
Jiaozira
+1
Level 71
Sep 16, 2021
I don't like the Metropolitan Figures, they are far too encompassing for my likes. For example, my city Lethbridge is ballooned to the population of Lethbridge County (majority of which is rural). I find it far more arbitrary than Population-centres, even if that measurement has its flaws too (the most obvious of which being the inclusion of Kanata, in my opinion).
Potatoe1187
+3
Level 65
Apr 28, 2021
This is a really awesome quiz and deserves more recognition. The details of the different provinces and how you listed the number of cities in each province really brings everything together!

I am really curious though, how did you make this quiz to only include Canada, separate the Canadian provinces AND how you not only included the US, but also it's separate states?

Jiaozira
+2
Level 71
Apr 29, 2021
Thank you! I am glad you think so.

Actually, the original map comes from this Jetpunk quiz but I modified the map, as I saw fit.

tom19
+2
Level 65
Sep 14, 2021
Mississauga??
QuizzerBros
+3
Level 68
Sep 14, 2021
I'm assuming it's part of Toronto.
Jiaozira
+3
Level 71
Sep 14, 2021
Yes part of Toronto's population-centre. I've taken a train from Mississauga to Toronto and I couldn't tell where one city ended and the other began!
julie22222
+2
Level 59
Oct 23, 2021
Why does Kanata count but not Gatineau? As someone from Ottawa, Kanata is basically just another part of the city, while Gatineau is a different city. Does the metro area count or not?
Jiaozira
+1
Level 71
Oct 24, 2021
It is population-centre figures, so it's somewhere inbetween city proper and metro. As you probably guessed, Gatineau is absorbed into Ottawa. I 100% agree with you though that Kanata should be included in Ottawa's population figures (in fact I'm really tempted to grey that one out and go to 101 instead).

It is the price to pay for using population-centre figures, however, and I have much less issues with this measurement than I do with city-proper or metro area :)

Jiaozira
+2
Level 71
Mar 25, 2022
Thank you for the spotlight :)
Jerry928
+2
Level 76
Jun 25, 2024
Looks like you'll be thanking again! A fun reminder of my 3-month road trip from the Alaska border to Sydney in 2014, but I only remembered 24 this time - but recognised several more when the answers came up. I'm a bit surprised that Gatineau didn't have its own dot. Even though it's just across the river from Ottawa, it's in the next province and more importantly speaks a different language!
Jiaozira
+1
Level 71
Jun 26, 2024
Thank you once more! What an amazing road trip it must have been! Lifelong Canadian here and I've barely been east of Saskatchewan :)

Ottawa-Gatineau is not the only population centre which crosses linguistic boundaries. Moncton, New Brunswick is an Anglo majority city which is merged by the data with Dieppe, NB which is a Franco/Acadian majority town.

WhatIsLove
+1
Level 60
Aug 21, 2022
Some cities are missing, Alma for example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma,_Quebec

Jiaozira
+1
Level 71
Aug 22, 2022
It's because of the way the population is counted, check here
nothankyouplease
+2
Level 61
Apr 13, 2023
I think Whitehorse should be included on here. Citypopulation.de says it has around 30,000 people, and it cites Statistics Canada as its source.
Jiaozira
+1
Level 71
Apr 14, 2023
Statistics Canada calculates for different urban measurements at the same time: city proper population, population-centre (which includes all settlements within a built-up urban area regardless of administrative borders) and metro-areas/agglomerations (which includes surrounding administrative divisions, meaning the exact size of the agglomeration depends on the borders of the administrative units themselves).

For this quiz I used population-centre metrics, which actually has the smallest population figure for Whitehorse of any metric, as Whitehorse has large city-limits which encompass surrounding populated rural areas. On the other hand, Whitehorse's agglomeration is even larger, and stretches all the way to the BC border.

It's a good question though.

Leafsnationguy
+3
Level 53
Aug 16, 2023
Thank you for using population centre statistics. It gives me unreasonable amounts of joy to have a quiz where Kawartha Lakes and Prince Edward County are not listed as cities. Honestly imo it's easily the best way to measure population of the three available
Jiaozira
+2
Level 71
Aug 16, 2023
I agree! Especially in Ontario I have a big problem with the way that certain county-like regions are given the same status as a city (single-tier municipality), or when Fort McMurray in Alberta becomes 'Wood Buffalo'. There are many administrative reasons why this may be the case, but what matters on Jetpunk is to have the best guessing experience :)
scoots
+1
Level 47
Mar 9, 2024
Does Lloydminster count as pat of both Sask and Alberta?
Jiaozira
+1
Level 71
Mar 9, 2024
Yes, administratively it is one unified city.
raiderdline61
+3
Level 56
Aug 28, 2024
Would it be possible to accept "Valleyfield" for Salaberry-de-Valleyfield? At least in English, that's what most of us refer to it as locally.

Great quiz! Given how differently each province handles municipalities, I think going by urban areas like you did is probably the best approach.

Jiaozira
+1
Level 71
Aug 29, 2024
I didn't know that before, I added the type-in and I'll be sure to do that on future quizzes too!

Thanks for playing, I wanted to represent as many provinces (and regions of provinces as possible) so urban areas works well for that. I used to use Statistic Canada's population centres, but it has a few weird quirks like separating Kanata from Ottawa. Meanwhile if I used the city boundaries, half the quiz would be Toronto/Vancouver/Montreal suburbs and banlieuex haha.

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