Metropolitan

Metropolitan may refer to:

• Metropolitan area, a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories
• Metropolitan borough, a form of local government district in England
• Metropolitan county, a type of county-level administrative division of England

Businesses

• Metro-Cammell, previously the Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company
• Metropolitan-Vickers, a British heavy electrical engineering company
• Metropolitan Stores, a Canadian former department store chain
• Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company

Colleges and universities

• Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
• London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
• Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
• Metropolitan Community College (Omaha), United States
• Metropolitan State University of Denver, United States
  • Metro State Roadrunners
• Metropolitan State University, in Saint Paul, Minnesota
• Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
• Swansea Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
• Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
• Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Film

• Metropolitan (1990 film), a film by Whit Stillman
• Metropolitan (1935 film), a film by Richard Boleslawski

Literature

• Metropolitan (novel), a science fiction novel by Walter Jon Williams
• The Metropolitan (newspaper), the college newspaper of Metropolitan State University of Denver
• The Metropolitan Magazine, a publication from London
• Metropolitan Magazine (New York City), a literary magazine
• Seattle Metropolitan, a local-interest magazine published in Seattle, Washington

Music

• Metropolitan (band), an indie rock group from Washington, D.C.
• "Metropolitan", a song by Nemo

Transport

Transit systems

• Metropolitan (train), a discontinued German train service between Cologne and Hamburg
• Metropolitan line, a London Underground route

Vehicles

• Convair Metropolitan, an airliner
• Metropolitan Special, a named train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, from Jersey City to St. Louis
• Nash Metropolitan, an automobile
• Scania Metropolitan, a double-decker bus
• Metropolitan, a named train of the Pennsylvania Railroad, from New York City to St. Louis

Venues

• Metropolitan (bar), a gay bar in New York City
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York
• Metropolitan Opera, in New York
• Teatro Metropólitan, a theatre in Mexico
• The Metropolitan Theatre, a theatre and music hall in Edgware Road, Paddington, London, now demolished

Other uses

• Metropolitan (cocktail), a variation of the Brandy Manhattan
• Metropolitan archdiocese, the jurisdiction of a metropolitan archbishop
• Metropolitan area network, a city-spanning computer network
• Metropolitan bishop or archbishop, leader of an ecclesiastical "mother see"
• Metropolitan Division, a division in the National Hockey League
• Metropolitan Police Service, the police force of Greater London, England

See also

• Met (disambiguation)
• Metro (disambiguation)
• Metropol (disambiguation)
• Metropole, "mother country", or central part of a colonizing state
• Metropolis, a large city or conurbation
• Metropolis (disambiguation)
• The Metropolitan (disambiguation)
• Metropolitan Bank (disambiguation)
• Metropolitan France, the part of France in Europe
• Metropolitan Magazine (disambiguation)
• Metropolitan Opera House (disambiguation)
• Moscow Metro (rus. Московский метрополитен), a rapid transit system in Moscow, Russia
• Paris Métro, a rapid transit system in Paris, France
• Rapid transit system, in an urban area
• Transmetropolitan, a comic book series