Q: the greater horseshoe area has almost the same area as greater Chicago. it has 8-9 million people and gdp per capita is almost the same as Chicago's. that means that Toronto has one of the 10 biggest city economies in the world. why isn't the golden horseshoe area considered greater Toronto ? metro Chicago is 20-30 thousand square km's in area metro Denver is about 22 thousand square km's the golden horseshoe area is 11-33 thousand square km's the metro Toronto that everyone says has 6 million people is only about 7-8 thousand square km's in size. but Toronto coud add another 2-3 million people if it made it's metro area as large as cities in the US.
A: A few facts about the Toronto area. The city of Toronto is a area of 255 square miles. The five cities that surround Toronto are Mississiauga, Vaughan, York and Durham. The popualtion of th city of Toronto is now about 3 million, and the five surrounding cities add up to an additional 3 million people. The term "The Golden Horseshoe " reffers to the 125 miles that run from Oshawa, thru Toronto, to Niagara falls, along the shores of Lake Ontario. About a third of ALL the people who live in Canada, ( 12 million people, of the national total of 32 million ) live within 200 miles of Toronto. So yes it is a massive popualtion centre. Jim B. Toronto.