Ottawa
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada.
Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It is located in the southeastern portion of the province of Ontario, at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR). As of 2021, Ottawa had a city population of 1,017,449 and a metropolitan population of 1,488,307, making it the fourth-largest city and fourth-largest metropolitan area in Canada.
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Worth seeing in and around Ottawa
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Site of the Canadian Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
300 m · Wikipedia - 09
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Ottawa
- Airports
- Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier (YOW), 12 km · Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau (YUL), 152 km · Syracuse Hancock (SYR), 259 km
- Stations
- Ottawa station, 3.5 km · Ottawa/Rockcliffe Airport, 5.5 km
- Montréal → Ottawa165 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · C$24–32
- Hamilton → OttawaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Quebec → Ottawa379 km · quickest by air, 6h 17m · C$140–220
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ottawa
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ottawa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inHowever, there is a tourist-oriented water taxi that runs between Ottawa and Hull for about $6 one way.
From Wikivoyage: Ottawa, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Ottawa
Ottawa is 6 km from Gatineau, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Gatineaucity in Quebec, Canada7.4 km
- New Edinburghneighborhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada2.2 km
- LeBreton Flatsneighborhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada1.9 km
- Rockcliffeneighborhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada3.1 km
- Vanierneighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada2.9 km
- Gloucestersuburb of and within the City of Ottawa6.8 km