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The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto was a senior level of municipal government in the Toronto, Ontario, Canada area from 1954 to 1998. It was created out of York County and was a precursor to the later concept of a regional municipality, being formed of smaller municipalities but having more responsibilities than a county or district. It was commonly referred to as "Metro" or "Metro Toronto" to avoid confusion with the former City of Toronto, which was one of its constituent municipalities. Passage of the 1997 City of Toronto Act caused the 1998 amalgamation, ending Metro Toronto.
The boundary of present-day Toronto is the same as that of Metropolitan Toronto at the time of its dissolution: Lake Ontario to the south, Etobicoke Creek and highway 427 to the west, Steeles Avenue to the north and the Rouge River to the east. Metropolitan Toronto consisted of all the hamlets, villages, townships, towns, and cities within those boundaries.
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