Kitchener is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It was called the Town of Berlin from 1854 until 1912 and the City of Berlin from then until 1916.
It city had a population of 204,668 in 2006. The metropolitan area, which includes the neighbouring cities of Waterloo and Cambridge, has 451,235 people, making it the 11th largest Census Metropolitan Area in Canada and the 5th in Ontario.
Kitchener is the seat of the Waterloo Regional Municipality, and is adjacent to the smaller cities of Cambridge to the south, and Waterloo to the north.
Kitchener and Waterloo are often referred to jointly as "Kitchener-Waterloo", they do however, have separate municipal governments.
The City of Kitchener covers 136.86 square kilometres and in 2004, Kitchener celebrated its 150th anniversary.
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