Metropolitan may refer to: *

Metropolitan area A metropolitan area or metro is a region that consists of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing. A metro area usually ...

, 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) Metropolitan Community College (Metro or MCC) is a public community college in Omaha, Nebraska. It has multiple campuses throughout the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area. MCC serves residents of Dodge, Douglas, Sarpy and Washington Count ...

, United States *

Metropolitan State University of Denver Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU Denver or Metro State) is a public university in Denver, Colorado. MSU Denver is located on the Auraria Campus, along with the University of Colorado Denver and the Community College of Denver, in ...

, 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 The Scania Metropolitan was the first double decker bus model built jointly by MCW and Scania. It was built between 1973 and 1978. It was the second bus model jointly built by these two companies. The first model was the Metro-Scania single ...

, 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 The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...

, in New York *

Metropolitan Opera The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is 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 In Christian churches with episcopal polity, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan (alternative obsolete form: metropolite), pertains to the diocesan bishop or archbishop of a metropolis. Originally, the term referred to the ...

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