Windsor | |
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| City of Windsor | |
From top, left to right: Downtown Windsor skyline, Ambassador Bridge, WFCU Centre, Dillon Hall at University of Windsor, and Caesars Windsor | |
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| Nicknames: | |
| Motto(s): The river and the land sustain us. - “The Place to Be.” | |
 Location in the Detroit–Windsor region | |
  Windsor Location within southern Ontario  Windsor Location within Ontario  Windsor Location within Canada | |
| Coordinates: 42°18′08″N 82°59′37″W / 42.30222°N 82.99361°W[2] | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Ontario |
| Census division | Essex |
| Settled | 1749 |
| Incorporated | 1854 |
| Named for | Windsor, Berkshire |
| Government | |
| • Type | Council-Manager |
| • Mayor | Drew Dilkens |
| • Governing body | Windsor City Council |
| • MPs | Brian Masse (NDP), Irek Kusmierczyk (LPC) |
| • MPPs | Lisa Gretzky (NDP), Andrew Dowie (PC) |
| Area | |
• City (single-tier) | 146.32 km2 (56.49 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 175.77 km2 (67.87 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 1,022.84 km2 (394.92 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 190 m (620 ft) |
| Population (2021) | |
• City (single-tier) | 229,660 (23rd) |
| • Urban | 306,519 (16th) |
| • Metro | 422,630 (16th) |
| Demonym | Windsorite |
| Gross Metropolitan Product | |
| • Windsor CMA | CA$16.4 billion (2019)[5] |
| Time zone | UTC−05:00 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−04:00 (EDT) |
| Forward sortation area | |
| Area codes | 519, 226 and 548 |
| Website | www.citywindsor.ca |
| * Separated municipalities | |
Windsor (/ˈwɪndzər/ WIND-zer) is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, on the south bank of the Detroit River directly across from Detroit, Michigan, United States. Geographically located within but administratively independent of Essex County, it is the southernmost city in Canada and marks the southwestern end of the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. The city's population was 229,660 at the 2021 census, making it the third-most populated city in Southwestern Ontario, after London and Kitchener. This represents a 5.7 percent[6] increase from Windsor's 2016 population census of 217,188. The Detroit–Windsor urban area is North America's most populous trans-border conurbation. Linking the Great Lakes Megalopolis, the Ambassador Bridge border crossing is the busiest commercial crossing on the Canada–United States border.
Windsor is a major contributor to Canada's automotive industry and is culturally diverse. Known as the "Automotive Capital of Canada", Windsor's industrial and manufacturing heritage is responsible for how the city has developed through the years.
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- ^ "Windsor". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
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- ^ "Windsor (census metropolitan area) community profile". 2006 Census data. Statistics Canada. March 13, 2007. Archived from the original on May 21, 2022. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
- ^ "Table 36-10-0468-01 Gross domestic product (GDP) at basic prices, by census metropolitan area (CMA) (x 1,000,000)". Statistics Canada. January 27, 2017. Archived from the original on January 22, 2021. Retrieved April 27, 2021.
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