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Thunder Bay is a city in, and the seat of, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada. It is the most populous town in Northwestern Ontario with a population of 107,900 as of the Canada 2016 Census, and the 2nd most populated in Northern Ontario after Greater Sudbury. Located on Lake Superior, the census metropolitan location of Thunder Bay has a population of 121,600, and consists of the city of Thunder Bay, the towns of Oliver Paipoonge and Neebing, the areas of Shuniah, Conmee, O’Connor, and Gillies, and the Fort William First Nation.

Forestry and production played essential roles in the city’s economy. Thunder Bay is the website of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute.

The city takes its name from the enormous Thunder Bay at the head of Lake Superior, understood on 18th-century French maps as Baie du Tonnerre (Bay of Thunder). The city is typically referred to as the “Lakehead”, or “Canadian Lakehead”, since of its place at the end of Great Lakes navigation on the Canadian side of the border.