Ottawa

Ottawa
City (single-tier)
City of Ottawa Ville d'Ottawa
Flag Coat of arms
Nickname:  "Bytown"[1]
Motto(s):  "Advance-Ottawa-En Avant" Written in the two official languages.[2]
Location of Ottawa in the province of Ontario
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Coordinates: 45°25′N 75°41′W / 45.417°N 75.683°W / 45.417; -75.683
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Region	National Capital Region
Established	1826 as Bytown[3]
Incorporated	1855 as City of Ottawa[3]
Amalgamated	1 January 2001
Government
• Mayor	Jim Watson
• City Council	Ottawa City Council
• MPs	List of MPs Chandra Arya (L) Mona Fortier (L) Andrew Leslie (L) Karen McCrimmon (L) David McGuinty (L) Catherine McKenna (L) Pierre Poilievre (C) Anita Vandenbeld (L)
• MPPs	List of MPPs Lisa MacLeod (C) Grant Crack (L) John Fraser (L) Marie-France Lalonde (L) Nathalie Des Rosiers (L) Yasir Naqvi (L) Jack MacLaren (T) Bob Chiarelli (L)
Area [4][5][6]
• City (single-tier)	2,778.13 km2 (1,072.9 sq mi)
• Urban	501.92 km2 (193.79 sq mi)
• Metro	5,716.00 km2 (2,206.96 sq mi)
Elevation	70 m (230 ft)
Population  (2016)[7][8]
• City (single-tier)	934,243 (4th)
• Density	334.8/km2 (867/sq mi)
• Urban	933,596
• Urban density	1,860.1/km2 (4,818/sq mi)
• Metro	1,323,783 (5th)
• Metro density	196.6/km2 (509/sq mi)
• Demonym[9][10]	Ottawan
Time zone	UTC−5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Postal code span	K1A-K4A[2]
Area code(s)	613, 343
GDP	US$ 58.2 billion[11]
GDP per capita	US$44,149[11]
Website	www.ottawa.ca

Ottawa is the capital of Canada and is part of the province of Ontario. It is south of the Ottawa River. In 2004, there were about 808,391 people in the city. The region has about 1,146,790 people. The mayor of the city today (since November 2022) is Mark Sutcliffe. Ottawa is in the Ottawa Valley on the border with the province of Quebec which is divided by the Ottawa River. Ottawa is the fourth largest city in Canada and the second largest city in Ontario (after Toronto). Ottawa is the only officially bilingual city in Canada, where the English language and the French language are official languages and have equal status. Every official sign in the city is bilingual. The reason for this bilingual status, is not only because Ottawa borders the French-speaking province of Quebec, the city itself has a large French-speaking minority.

When people talk about Ottawa, they are sometimes using the name as an eponym meaning the highest government in Canada, and not its local government or the city.

The cities of Ottawa, Kanata, Nepean, Gloucester and Vanier and the villages of Manotick and Rockcliffe Park joined in the year 2000 to form the new city of Ottawa. Ottawa also includes Orléans, which joined at that same time.

The city began with the name Bytown and became the city of Ottawa in 1855. The Rideau Canal ends in Ottawa.

Ottawa has many museums, many buildings for the government of Canada and many parks. There is a market area downtown.

There are many festivals during the year including Winterlude in February, The Tulip Festival in May, and BluesFest in the summer. There is also a large celebration on July 1st for Canada Day.

The Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL) play ice hockey in an arena called Canadian Tire Centre. The Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League (CFL) also play in the city.

Ottawa has a hot-summer humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification: Dfa).

The average yearly rain and snow in Ottawa is 943 millimetres.

2017 was a record year in Ottawa because there was rain and snow of 1,213 millimetres during the first ten months of the year. The old record was in 1972, when the rain and snow was 1,174 millimetres. ^[12]

• List of bridges in Ottawa
• List of Ottawa neighborhoods