Metropolitan

Metropolitan may refer to:

• A metropolis
• A metropolitan area
• A metropole, "mother country", or central part of a colonizing state
• Metropolitan bishop or archbishop, leader of an ecclesiastical "mother see"
• As a cognate, a rapid transit system in an urban area

Places

• Metropolitan borough, a form of local government district in England
• Metropolitan county, a type of county-level administrative division of England
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York
• Metropolitan Opera, in New York
• Metropolitan France, the part of France located in Europe

Transport

• Metropolitan Line, a London Underground route
• Paris Métro, a rapid transit system in Paris, France

Education

• Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
• London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
• Metropolitan State College of Denver, United States
• The Metropolitan, the college newspaper
• Metropolitan State University, in Saint Paul, Minnesota
• Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
• Swansea Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

Media and entertainment

• Metropolitan (film), a 1990 movie directed by Whit Stillman
• Metropolitan (1935 film), a movie directed by Richard Boleslawski
• Metropolitan (novel), a science fiction novel by Walter Jon Williams
• Seattle Metropolitan, a local interest magazine published in Seattle, Washington
• Transmetropolitan, a comic book series
• Metropolitan (band), an indie rock group from Washington, D.C.
• "Metropolitan," a song by Nemo

Engineering

• Metro Cammell—the "Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company"
• Metropolitan-Vickers, a British heavy electrical engineering company
• Metropolitan area network, a city-spanning computer network
• Nash Metropolitan, an automobile
• Metropolitan Special, a named train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
• Scania Metropolitan, double decker bus
• Metropolitan (train), a premium train service in Germany that operated between August 1999 and December 2004

Other

• Metropolitan Police Service, the police force of London, England