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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Charlatan
[B]1) Yonge Street (pronounced Young) is the longest street in the world at 1,896 km
2) Toronto is as far south as the French Riviera (but sadly not as warm all year)
3) More people live in Toronto than in all the four Atlantic Provinces combined (Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick)
4) Toronto has the fifth largest government in Canada
5) Toronto is one of the most racially diverse cities in the world:
Toronto and the cities near by is a very diversified, it has the second largest greek population outside of greece (largest being Queens, NY), it has the second largest chinatown and chinese population outside of San Fran, Kitchener-Waterloo (120km away) is the largest Germanic settlement outside of continental europe, this city also has a massive population of Italians, Protugeses, and Jews
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