Metro

Metro is an abbreviation of metropolitan, and is the name of many products and services relating to urban areas, especially public transport systems.

Public transport

Rapid transit systems

• Metro (rapid transit), a passenger railway system in an urban area with a high capacity and frequency
• Metro, the name of hundreds of rapid transit networks around the world named after the Paris Métro. See List of metro systems#List.

Non rapid transit rail networks

These networks are not rapid transit systems, and are not in the list mentioned above.

• Metro Light Rail (Phoenix), in the Phoenix metropolitan area, Arizona, United States
• Tranz Metro, commuter rail in Wellington, New Zealand
• Metrolink (Manchester), a light urban tram system in Greater Manchester, UK
• Muni Metro, the light rail system serving San Francisco, California, United States
• Metro Trains Melbourne, the operator of the suburban railway network in Melbourne, Australia
• MetroTrain, the rail services co-ordinated by Metro (West Yorkshire) in England

Bus services and other transit authorities

• Metrobus (disambiguation), a name used by multiple bus operators
• Metro Tasmania, a state owned bus company that is the major public transport provider in Tasmania's five main population centres
• Metro (Belfast), bus services in Northern Ireland
• King County Metro, serving King County, Washington and the Seattle metropolitan area
• Madison Metro, serving Madison, Wisconsin, United States
• Metro Transit (disambiguation), a name used by multiple bus services
  • Metro Transit (Halifax), serving Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Metro Transit (Kalamazoo), serving Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
  • Metro Transit (Minnesota), serving the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area, United States
  • Metro Transit (Oklahoma City), serving the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, United States
• Metro (Houston) or the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, responsible for rail and bus systems in the Greater Houston area, Texas, United States
• Metro (West Yorkshire), the brand adopted by the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive in England
• NFTA Metro, in Erie and Niagara counties of New York, United States
• Metro (Christchurch), the brand for co-ordinated public transport in Christchurch, New Zealand
• Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, branded Metro, responsible for rapid transit metro and bus systems in Washington, D.C. and the surrounding suburbs, United States
• Metro (St. Louis), the brand for the Bi-State Development Agency, serving St. Louis, Missouri, United States
• Metro, the brand for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, United States, responsible for rail and bus systems
• Swansea Metro, a bus rapid transit line in Wales

Airports

• Metropolitan Airport, Palmer, Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States
• Detroit Metro Airport, Michigan, United States

Populations

• Metro, Indonesia, a city in Lampung, Indonesia
• Metropolitan area, a large population area and its adjacent zone of influence
  • For individual metropolitan areas, see the list of metropolitan areas by population

Government

• Metro (Oregon regional government), the regional government for the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon, United States
• Metro Toronto, the former regional government body of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in Nevada, United States

Media

Newspapers

• Metro (British newspaper), a free daily newspaper in the United Kingdom and Ireland
• Metro International, a Swedish media company that runs dozens of city and country editions in Europe, Asia and the Americas
• Metro Newspapers, a newspaper company in California, United States, which publishes:
  • Metro Silicon Valley, a weekly newspaper published in San Jose, California
  • Metro Santa Cruz, the former name of a weekly newspaper published in Santa Cruz, California, later renamed the Santa Cruz Weekly
• Metro (Belgian newspaper), separate versions in Belgium's two main languages, published in Brussels
• Zimbabwe Metro, a newspaper published in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
• Harian Metro, a newspaper published in Malaysia

Magazines

• Metro (magazine), a monthly lifestyle magazine published in New Zealand
• Metro Magazine, a trade magazine published for bus and rail transit and motorcoach operators since 1904 (since 1975 under that title)

Broadcasting

• Metro FM, a national radio station in South Africa
• Metro Radio, a radio station in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England
• Metro Broadcast Corporation, with a variety of Hong Kong based Metro-branded radio stations
• Metro TV, Indonesia's first 24-hour news channel

Retail businesses

• Metro AG, Germany's largest retailer
• Metro Cash and Carry, a cash-and-carry hypermarket chain owned by Metro AG
• Metro (department store), a department store chain based in Singapore
• Metro Inc., a Canadian supermarket chain
• Metro (supermarket, Greece), a Greek supermarket chain
• Metro (supermarket, Indonesia), previously an Indonesian supermarket operator
• MetroCentre, largest indoor shopping mall in the European Union, located in Gateshead, England, UK
• METRO Foods Trading, retailer in Cyprus

Entertainment

Music

• Metro Chicago, a popular music venue in Chicago, United States
• The Metro Theatre, a music venue in Sydney, Australia
• The Metro (song), a 1983 single by American new wave band Berlin
• Metro Recordings, a record label
• "Metro" (The Vincent Black Shadow song), a 2006 single by the Canadian band The Vincent Black Shadow
• The Metros, an English indie band
• Metro (Hungarian band), a Hungarian rock band in the 1960s and 1970s
• Metro (jazz band)
• Metro Station (band), an alternative rock group with hit single "Shake It"

Film

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the leading film studio during the first half of the 20th century
  • Metro Pictures, one of MGM's predecessor companies
• Metropolis (film), a 1927 silent film directed by Fritz Lang
• Metro (1997 film), a 1997 film starring Eddie Murphy
• Life in a... Metro, a 2007 Bollywood film starring Shilpa Shetty
• The Metro (film), a 2011 Malayalam-language film

Other

• Metro 2033, a first person shooter video game published by THQ
• Metro (wrestler), a Mexican masked luchador

Vehicles

• Fairchild Metro, a turboprop, 19-passenger commuter airliner
• Austin Metro, or MG Metro, produced by Austin Rover in Europe
• Geo Metro, sold by General Motors in the United States
• International Harvester Metro Van, a delivery van made by International Harvester

Language

• The word for metre, a unit of length, in several languages including Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
• metrosexual, a neologism for a heterosexual male

Technology

• Metro, former code name of the XML Paper Specification, Microsoft's document framework
• Metro Ethernet, a computer network based on the Ethernet standard and which covers a metropolitan area
• GlassFish Metro, an opensource web service stack that is part of the GlassFish project
• Metro (design language), crafted by Microsoft for Windows Media Center, Zune, Windows Phone 7, Windows 8 and Xbox 360 Dashboard

Sport

• MetroStars, a former United States Major League soccer club, now known as New York Red Bulls
• Metro Conference, a defunct NCAA Division I athletic conference
• Metro F.C.

Education

• Metro Academic and Classical High School, a high school in St. Louis, Missouri, United States
• Metro State College in Denver, Colorado, United States
• Metro State University in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States