Metro

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Metro (an abbreviation of metropolitan) usually refers to:

• Metropolitan area, a large population area and its adjacent zone of influence
  • For individual metropolitan areas, see the list of metropolitan areas by population

• Rapid transit, a passenger railway in an urban area with high capacity and frequency
  • Many metro systems have "Metro" in their name and are commonly known as such; see the list of metro systems

Metro may also refer to:

Public transport

• London's Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway and a precursor of the London Underground
• The Paris Métro in Paris, France
• Metro Light Rail (Phoenix), Arizona, United States
• Manchester Metrolink, a light urban tram system, England
• Metro Trains Melbourne, in Australia
• Muni Metro, light rail system, San Francisco, California
• METRO (Minnesota), existing and proposed light rail and bus rapid transit lines
• Tranz Metro, commuter rail operator, Wellington, New Zealand
• Tyne and Wear Metro, light rail system, North East England

Bus services and other transit authorities

• West Yorkshire Metro or MetroTrain, England
• King County Metro, Washington, United States
• Madison Metro, Wisconsin, United States
• Metro (Belfast), bus services, Northern Ireland
• Metro (Christchurch), co-ordinated public transport, Christchurch, New Zealand
• Metro (Houston) or the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, rail and bus systems, Greater Houston, Texas, United States
• Greater Portland Metro Bus, Maine, United States
• Metro (St. Louis), also known as the Bi-State Development Agency, Missouri, United States
• Metro Tasmania, a state-owned bus company
• Metro Transit:, such as
  • Metro Transit (Halifax), Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Metro Transit (Kalamazoo), Michigan, United States
  • Metro Transit (Minnesota), Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area, United States
  • Metro Transit (Oklahoma City), Oklahoma, United States
• Metrobus (disambiguation), several bus operators
• Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority Metro, Erie and Niagara counties, New York, United States
• Ftrmetro Swansea, a bus rapid transit line, Wales
• Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, branded Metro, rapid transit metro and bus systems, Washington, D.C. and surroundng suburbs, United States
• Metro, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, rail and bus systems, United States

Airports

• Detroit Metro Airport, Michigan, United States
• Metropolitan Airport, Palmer, Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States

Education

• Metro Academic and Classical High School, St Louis, Missouri, United States
• Metro State College, Denver, Colorado, United States
• Metro State University, Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Entertainment

Theatre

• Metro (musical), a 1991 Polish musical

Books

• Metro (novel), a novel by Vladimir Varankin

Film

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), a film studio
  • Metro Pictures, one of MGM's predecessor companies
• Metropolis (film), a 1927 silent film directed by Fritz Lang
• Metro (1997 film), starring Eddie Murphy
• Life in a... Metro, a 2007 Bollywood film starring Shilpa Shetty
• The Metro (film), a 2011 Malayalam-language film
• Metro (2013 film), Russian film

Games

• Metro: Last Light, a sequel to Metro 2033

Music

Artists

• Metro (Hungarian band)
• Metro (British band), active 1976–1981
• Metro (Serbian band)
• Metro Station (band), an alternative rock group
• The Metros, an English indie band

Songs

• "Metro" (The Vincent Black Shadow song)
• "The Metro" (song), a 1983 single by Berlin

Companies and venues

• Metro Chicago, a popular music venue, Chicago, United States
• Metro Recordings, a record label
• The Metro Theatre, a music venue, Sydney, Australia

Government

• Metro (Oregon regional government), the regional government for the Portland metropolitan area, Oregon, United States
• Metropolitan Toronto, the former municipal government body, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Nevada, United States
• Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, Tennessee, United States

Media

Broadcasting

• Metro Broadcast Corporation, with a variety of Hong Kong based Metro-branded radio stations
• Metro FM, a national radio station, South Africa
• Metro Radio, a radio station, Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England
• MetroTV, an Indonesian news channel
• Metro 14, on air name of CJNT-DT, a television station, Montreal, Quebec
• Radio Metro, a radio station, Argentina

Magazines

• Metro (magazine), New Zealand
• Metro Magazine, for bus and rail transit and motorcoach operators
• Metro Weekly, a free weekly magazine-style publication for the LGBT community, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Newspapers

• Harian Metro, Malaysia
• Metro (Belgian newspaper)
• Metro (British newspaper)
• Métro (Canadian newspaper)
• Metro (Dutch newspaper)
• Metro (Italian newspaper)
• Metro International, a Swedish media company that runs dozens of city and country editions in Europe, Asia and the Americas
• Metro Newspapers, a newspaper company, California, United States, which publishes:
  • Metro Santa Cruz, the former name of a weekly newspaper published in Santa Cruz, California, renamed the Santa Cruz Weekly
  • Metro Silicon Valley, a weekly newspaper published in San Jose, California
• Zimbabwe Metro

People

• El Metro 4, a Mexican high-ranking drug trafficker
• Gregorio Sauceda-Gamboa, a Mexican drug lord nicknamed Metro 2
• Samuel Flores Borrego, a Mexican drug lord nicknamed Metro 3

Retail businesses

• Metro (department store), a department store chain based in Singapore
• Metro (supermarket, Greece), a Greek supermarket chain
• Metro (supermarket, Indonesia), previously an Indonesian supermarket operator
• Metro AG, Germany's largest retailer
• MetroCentre (shopping centre), largest indoor shopping mall in the European Union, Gateshead, England, UK
• Metro Cash and Carry, a cash-and-carry hypermarket chain owned by Metro AG
• METRO Foods Trading, retailer, Cyprus
• Metro Inc., a Canadian supermarket chain

Sport

• Metro (wrestler), a Mexican masked luchador
• Metro Conference, a defunct NCAA Division I athletic conference
• Metro F.C.
• MetroStars, a former United States Major League soccer club, now the New York Red Bulls

Technology

• Metro (design language), developed by Microsoft for user interfaces for computers and mobile devices
• GlassFish Metro, an open source web service stack that is part of the GlassFish project
• Metro Ethernet, an Ethernet-based computer network that covers a metropolitan area
• Metro, former code name of the XML Paper Specification, Microsoft's document framework

Vehicles

• Austin Metro and MG Metro, produced by Austin Rover in Europe
• Fairchild Metro, a commuter airliner
• Geo Metro, a variant of the Suzuki Cultus sold in North America
• International Harvester Metro Van

Other

• Metro, Lampung, a city in Indonesia
• Abbreviation for the Metropolitan New York Library Council
• The word for metre, a unit of length, in languages including Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
• Metrosexual, a neologism for men who live in urban environments and adopt fashions and lifestyles stereotypically associated with homosexuals