Longest street in the world

Yonge Street (pronounced "young") located in Ontario, Canada, is a major arterial street in Toronto and its northern suburbs.


It was previously listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest street in the world.


Yonge Street is home or close to many attractions in Toronto, including street and theatre performances, the Eaton Centre, Dundas Square, the Hockey Hall of Fame, Sam the Record Man, and at the very start of the road, 'One Yonge Street', the offices of the Toronto Star.

The Yonge Line of the Toronto Subway runs under and in open cuts beside Yonge Street from south of King Street to Finch Avenue.

Yonge Street was originally a military trail linking Lake Ontario with the northern Great Lakes. For this reason, it is unusually long and straight.