Metro

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Metro, short for metropolitan, may refer to:

Geography

  • Metro (city), a city in Indonesia
  • A metropolitan area, the populated region including and surrounding an urban center

Public transport

  • Rapid transit, a passenger railway in an urban area with high capacity and frequency
  • The public transport operator of city or metropolitan area
  • The transport authority of city or metropolitan area
  • The urban rail transit system of a city or metropolitan area

Rail systems

Africa

Asia

  • Busan Metro, Republic of Korea (South Korea)
  • Daegu Metro, Republic of Korea (South Korea)
  • Dhaka Metro, Bangladesh
  • Doha Metro, Qatar
  • Dubai Metro, United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.)
  • Kaohsiung Rapid Transit, Taiwan
  • Lahore Metro, Pakistan
  • Manila Metro Rail Transit System, the Philippines
  • New Taipei Metro, Taiwan
  • Osaka Metro, Japan
  • Seoul Metropolitan Subway, Republic of Korea (South Korea)
  • Taichung Metro, Taiwan
  • Taipei Metro, Taiwan
  • Taoyuan Metro, Taiwan
  • Tokyo Metro, Japan
China (People's Republic of)
India
Iran

Europe

United Kingdom

North America (outside the United States)

United States

Oceania

  • Metro Trains Melbourne, a metropolitan commuter train operator in Australia
  • Metro Tunnel, a metropolitan rail infrastructure project currently under construction in Melbourne, Australia
  • Metro Transport Sydney, the former operator of Sydney Light Rail and Sydney Monorail
  • Sydney Metro, in Sydney, Australia
  • Tranz Metro, former commuter rail operator, Wellington
  • Adelaide Metro, an integrated network of public transport, Adelaide, Australia
  • AT Metro, an integrated network of public transport, Auckland, New Zealand
  • Brisbane Metro, a rapid transit network of high-capacity, fully electric, bi-articulated buses, Australia
  • Metro (Christchurch), co-ordinated public transport, Christchurch, New Zealand
  • Metro Tasmania, a state-owned bus company

South America

Bus and/or rail services, and other transit authorities

  • Metrobus (disambiguation), several bus operators

Asia

Europe

  • Metro (Belfast), bus services, Northern Ireland
  • Metrobus (Istanbul), Turkey]
  • West Yorkshire Metro or MetroTrain, England

North America

Airports

Education

Media and entertainment

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
  • Metro TV (disambiguation), several television stations
  • Metro 14, on air name of CJNT-DT, a television station, Montreal, Quebec
  • Radio Metro, a radio station, Argentina
  • Metro (Poland), a Polish television channel

Film

  • Metro (1997 film), starring Eddie Murphy
  • Metro (2007 film), an Indian Hindi-language by Anurag Basu
    • Metro (2024 film), its sequel by Basu
  • Metro (2013 film), Russian film
  • Metro (2016 film), an Indian Tamil-language film
  • The Metro (film), an Indian 2011 Malayalam-language film
  • Metro Pictures, one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's predecessor companies

Music

Artists

  • Metro (Hungarian band)
  • Metro (British band), active 1976–1980
  • Metro (Serbian band), active 1981–1985; 1994–1997
  • Metrô (band), Brazilian new wave band active 1978–1988; 2002–2004; 2014; 2015–present
  • Metro Boomin (born 1993), American songwriter, known simply as Metro
  • The Metros, an English indie band active 2006–2009

Titled works

  • Metro (album), 1977 self-titled album by the British band
  • Metro (musical), a 1991 Polish musical
  • "The Metro" (song), a 1983 single by Berlin
  • "Metro", a 2006 song by The Vincent Black Shadow
  • "Metro", a song by Tokyo Jihen from the 2007 album Variety

Venues

Periodicals

Magazines

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

Newspapers

  • Harian Metro, Malaysia
  • Metro (Belgian newspaper)
  • Metro (British newspaper)
  • Metro (Dutch newspaper)
  • Metro (Italian newspaper)
  • Metro (Swedish newspaper)
  • Métro (Montreal newspaper), a French-language free newspaper
  • Metro (Philadelphia newspaper)
  • Metro New York (2004–2020), merged with AM New York, renamed AM New York Metro
  • AM New York Metro (2003, as AM New York), merged with Metro New York
  • Metro Daily, Hong Kong newspaper
  • Metro Santa Cruz, former name of a newspaper in Santa Cruz, California, renamed the Santa Cruz Weekly
  • Metro Silicon Valley, a newspaper in San Jose, California
  • StarMetro (newspaper), a chain of Canadian free newspapers (formerly called Metro until April 2018)
  • Zimbabwe Metro
Media Companies

Others

  • Metro (franchise), a multimedia sci-fi franchise created by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky, including:
Books
Video games
  • Metro 2033 (2010)
  • Metro: Last Light (2013)
  • Metro Exodus (2019)
  • Metro (novel), 1933 novel by Vladimir Varankin
  • Metro (typeface)
Board games
  • Metro, a 2000 board game

Business

Sports

  • Metro (wrestler), a Mexican masked luchador
  • Metro Conference, a defunct NCAA Division I athletic conference
  • Metro FC (New Zealand), association football club based in Auckland
  • Little League World Series (Metro Region), a Little League World Series United States region

Technology

  • Metro (design language), developed by Microsoft for interfaces
  • Eclipse Metro, an open source web service stack that is part of Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J)
  • 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

Aircraft

Automobiles

Other uses

See also

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  • Metropolitan (disambiguation)
  • Metropolis (disambiguation)
  • Metropol (disambiguation)
  • Metrorail (disambiguation)
  • Metro line (disambiguation)
  • Metroliner (disambiguation)
  • Metro City (disambiguation)
  • Dmytro, a Ukrainian name of which "Metro" is a nickname
  • All pages with titles beginning with Metro
  • All pages with titles containing Metro
Topics referred to by the same term
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