Comprises 10.7% of Canada's land mass in the province of Ontario.

Contains 38% of Canada's population (mostly in southern Ontario [south and east of Lake Huron]; only 8% of Ontarions live in northern Ontario)

Accounts for 40% of Canada's GDP

Shares the National Capital region of Ottawa-Hull with Québec

Land dominated in the north by the infertile Hudson Bay Lowlands and Canadian Shield

Land dominated in the south by the fertile lower Great Lakes-St Lawrence River Lowlands

Physical asset in the St Lawrence Seaway, which makes all Great Lakes navigable for ocean-going vessels

Physical asset in the proximity to large metropolitan markets in Canada and the USA

Economy is the engine for all of Canada

Economy in the south dominated by Industry and Manufacturing (especially automobile manufacturing), and fertile soils and long growing season in southern and southwestern Ontario, especially in the Niagara Peninsula where fruit (apples, grapes, peaches, pears) may be grown

Economy in the north dominated by resource extraction

Well-developed labour force for all economic sectors

Annual unemployment rate of about 9%.

Culture initially dominated by Scottish-Canadian, English-Canadian, and Irish-Canadian immigration in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Culture today is dominated by the multicultural city of Toronto.

Regional identity dominated by sense of being the centre of Canada (which all other regions acknowledge to varying degrees)

Regional identity of sparsely populated northern Ontario contrasts sharply with that of southern Ontario

One negative stereotype of Ontarions (southern Ontarions): self-satisfied and parochial, Ontarions seem to others to assume that their region's interests are the interests of all Canada.

One positive stereotype of Ontarions (southern Ontarions): the conscience of the nation, where the perspectives of other regions are balanced.