Metropolitan
Metropolitan may refer to:
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In geography
- Metropolis, a large city or conurbation
- Metropolitan area, a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories
- Metropole, "mother country", or central part of a colonizing state
- Metropolitan borough, a form of local government district in England
- Metropolitan county, a type of county-level administrative division of England
Named places
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York
- Metropolitan Opera, in New York
- Metropolitan France, the part of France located in Europe
Businesses
- Metro Cammell—the "Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company"
- Metropolitan-Vickers, a British heavy electrical engineering company
- Metropolitan Stores, a former Canadian variety department store chain
Transport
Transit systems
- Rapid transit system, in an urban area
- Metropolitan line, a London Underground route
- Metropolitan (train), discontinued German luxury high speed train service between Cologne and Hamburg
- Paris Métro, a rapid transit system in Paris, France
- Moscow Metro (rus. Московский метрополитен), a rapid transit system in Moscow, Russia
Vehicles
- Nash Metropolitan, an automobile
- Metropolitan Special, a named train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
- Scania Metropolitan, double decker bus
Colleges and Universities
- Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
- London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
- Metropolitan State University of Denver, United States
- Metropolitan Community College, United States
- Metropolitan State University, in Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
- Swansea Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
- Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Media and entertainment
Journalism and literature
- Metropolitan (novel), a science fiction novel by Walter Jon Williams
- The Metropolitan (newspaper), college newspaper of Metropolitan State University of Denver
- Seattle Metropolitan, a local interest magazine published in Seattle, Washington
- Transmetropolitan, a comic book series
Performing arts
- Metropolitan (1990 film), a 1990 film directed by Whit Stillman
- Metropolitan (1935 film), a 1935 film directed by Richard Boleslawski
- Metropolitan (band), an indie rock group from Washington, D.C.
- "Metropolitan," a song by Nemo
- Teatro Metropólitan, a theatre in Mexico
- The Metropolitan Theatre, Theatre and music hall in Edgware Road, Paddington, London, now demolished
Other uses
- 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
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