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Hotels in Ontario are often required by people who need accommodation in the Province. Some may need a hotel in the province as they want to go on vacation to the area to see the numerous tourist attractions. Some may want a luxury or cheap hotel. Some may want small or large hotel. Some may want hotel in a big city. Some may want hotel in rural areas in great landscapes with super scenic views.
Ontario is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area. (Nunavut and the Northwest Territories are larger but are not provinces.) Ontario is bordered by the provinces of Manitoba to the west, Quebec to the east, and the USA states (from west to east) of Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania (at Lake Erie), and New York. Most of Ontario's borders with the United States are natural, starting at the Lake of the Woods and continuing through four of the Great Lakes: Superior, Huron (which includes Georgian Bay), Erie, and Ontario, then along the Saint Lawrence River near Cornwall. Ontario is the only Canadian Province that borders the Great Lakes.
The province consists of 4 main geographical regions:
The thinly populated Canadian Shield in the northwestern and central portions
which covers over half the land area in the province; though mostly infertile
land, it is rich in minerals and studded with lakes and rivers; sub-regions are
Northwestern Ontario and Northeastern Ontario.
The virtually unpopulated Hudson
Bay Lowlands in the extreme north and northeast, mainly swampy and sparsely forested;
and
The temperate and therefore most populous region, the fertile Great Lakes
- Saint Lawrence Valley in the south where agriculture and industry are concentrated.
Southern Ontario is further sub-divided into four regions; Southwestern Ontario
(parts of which were formerly referred to as Western Ontario), Golden Horseshoe,
Central Ontario (although not actually the province's geographic centre) and Eastern
Ontario.
Despite the absence of any mountainous terrain in the province, there are large areas of uplands, particularly within the Canadian Shield which traverses the province from northwest to southeast and also above the Niagara Escarpment which crosses the south. The highest point is Ishpatina Ridge at 693 metres (2,270 ft) above sea level located in Temagami, Northeastern Ontario.
The Carolinian forest zone covers most of the southwestern section, its northern extent is part of the Greater Toronto Area at the western end of Lake Ontario. The most well-known geographic feature is Niagara Falls, part of the much more extensive Niagara Escarpment. The Saint Lawrence Seaway allows navigation to and from the Atlantic Ocean as far inland as Thunder Bay in Northwestern Ontario.
Point Pelee National Park is a peninsula in southwestern Ontario (near Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan) that extends into Lake Erie and is the southernmost extent of Canada's mainland. Pelee Island and Middle Island in Lake Erie extend slightly farther. All are south of 42°N – slightly farther south than the northern border of California.
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