Metropolitan

Metropolitan may refer to:

Areas and governance

• Metropolitan area, a region consisting of a densely-populated urban core and its surrounding territories
• Metropolitan borough, a form of local government district in England, United Kingdom
• Metropolitan county, a type of county-level administrative division of England, United Kingdom
• Metropolitan Corporation (Pakistan), a local government authority in Pakistan

Businesses

• Metro-Cammell, a British manufacturer of railway stock
• Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company
• Metropolitan Stores, a Canadian former department store chain
• Metropolitan-Vickers, a British heavy electrical engineering company

Colleges and universities

United Kingdom

• Leeds Metropolitan University, England
• London Metropolitan University, England
• Manchester Metropolitan University, England
• Swansea Metropolitan University, Wales

United States

• Metropolitan Community College (Omaha), United States
• Metropolitan State University of Denver, United States
  • Metro State Roadrunners
• Metropolitan State University, Saint Paul, Minnesota

In other countries

• Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
• Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
• Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Film

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

Literature

• The Metropolitan (newspaper), the college newspaper of Metropolitan State University of Denver
• Metropolitan (novel), a fantasy novel by Walter Jon Williams
• 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, a named train of the Pennsylvania Railroad, from New York City to St. Louis
• 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

Venues

• Metropolitan (bar), a gay bar in New York City
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York
• Metropolitan Opera, in New York
• Metropolitan Theatre (disambiguation), several venues

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
• New York Metropolitans, 19th century baseball team

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