Ottawa is Canada's capital and residence of the Canadian federal parliament, the eponymous river port on the right and the Rideau Canal, with a metropolitan area population of 1,168,788 inhabitants (2006).
The city is located in eastern Ontario, bordering the province of Quebec. Ottawa is a city as big as Montreal or Toronto. In terms of number of inhabitants, it lags behind other Canadian cities such as Vancouver and Calgary. It forms with a single urban agglomeration
Carleton, the fourth largest in Canada, numbering over one million inhabitants.
