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Waterloo is a city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It is named after the Battle of Waterloo and was established on May 27, 1857. The city shares borders with St. Jacobs and Kitchener. Its population is recorded as 121,436, with an elevation of 329 meters above sea level. Waterloo operates within the Eastern Time Zone and uses postal codes N2J, N2K, N2L, N2T, and N2V, along with local dialing codes 519 and 226.
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Place details
- Locality
- Waterloo
- Region
- Ontario
- Country
- Canada
- Population
- 104,986
- Timezone
- America/Toronto
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Canada
- Province
- Ontario
- Region
- Waterloo
- Incorporated
- May 27, 1857 ; 169 years ago ( May 27, 1857 )
- Mayor
- Dorothy McCabe
- Governing body
- Waterloo City Council
- City cao
- Tim Anderson
- Mp
- Bardish Chagger ( Liberal )
- Mpp
- Catherine Fife ( ONDP )
- Land
- 64.06 km (24.73 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 329 m (1,079 ft)
- City lower tier
- 121,436 ( 47th )
- Density
- 1,895.8/km (4,910/sq mi)
- Metro
- 575,847 ( 10th )
- Metro density
- 527.2/km (1,365/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Waterluvian
- Time zone
- UTC−5
- Summer dst
- UTC−4
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Named after
- Battle of Waterloo
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Regional Municipality of Waterloo
- Population
- 121436
- Elevation
- 329
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Kitchener
- Official website
- www.waterloo.ca
- Image
- Uptown Waterloo Ontario.JPG
- Dialing code
- 226
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- Commons category
- Waterloo, Ontario
- topic's main category
- Category:Waterloo, Ontario
- postal code
- N2J, N2K, N2L, N2T, N2V
- inception
- 1857-05-27
- Commons gallery
- Waterloo, Ontario
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Waterloo, Ontario
- P8168
- Frankenthal
- category for people born here
- Q32404500
- P12749
- January 27
- native label
- Waterloo
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Travel guide
Get around
City buses are infrequent especially on weekends/holidays. The town center is small and easily walkable.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
~36 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Waterloo is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is one of three cities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo (formerly Waterloo County). Waterloo is situated about 94 km (58 mi) west-southwest of Toronto, but it is not considered to be part of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Due to the close proximity of the city of Kitchener to Waterloo, the two together are often referred to as "Kitchener–Waterloo", "K-W", or "The Twin Cities". Nearby Cambridge, Ontario is also sometimes grouped in, creating KWC or "Tri-cities".
While several unsuccessful attempts to combine the municipalities of Kitchener and Waterloo have been made, following the 1973 establishment of the Region of Waterloo, less motivation to do so existed, and as a result, Waterloo remains an independent city. At the time of the 2021 census, the population of Waterloo was 121,436.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Waterloo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.