Metropolitan

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Metropolitan may refer to:

• A metropolis
• A metropolitan area
• Metropolitan bishop or archbishop, leader of an ecclesiastical 'mother see'
• Rapid transit system in an urban area

Contents 1 Places 2 Education 3 Media and entertainment 4 Other

[edit] Places

• Metropolitan borough, a local government body in the United Kingdom
• Metropolitan Police Service, the police force of London, England
• Metropolitan Line, a rapid transit system in London
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York
• Metropolitan Opera, in New York
• Metropolitan France, the part of France located in Europe
• Paris Métro, a rapid transit system in Paris, France
• Metropolitan (train), a premium train service in Germany that operated between August 1999 and December 2004

[edit] Education

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

[edit] Media and entertainment

• Metropolitan (1935 film), a movie directed by Richard Boleslawski
• Metropolitan (film), a 1990 movie directed by Whit Stillman
• 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", the opening song on indie rock band Nemo's debut album, Signs of Life

[edit] Other

• 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