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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

  • Taipei Metro, in Taipei, Taiwan
  • Taoyuan Metro, in Taoyuan, Taiwan
  • New Taipei Metro, in New Taipei, Taiwan
  • Bangkok Metro, in Bangkok, Thailand
  • Lahore Metro, in Lahore, Pakistan
  • Dubai Metro, in Dubai
  • Manila Metro, in Manila, Philippnes
India
  • Chennai Metro, in Chennai
  • Delhi Metro, Delhi & NCR region
  • Kolkata Metro, in Kolkata
  • Mumbai Metro, in Mumbai
  • Hyderabad Metro, in Hyderabad
  • Kochi Metro, in Kochi
  • Nagpur Metro, in Nagpur
  • Lucknow Metro, in Lucknow
  • Noida Metro, in Noida
  • Namma Metro, in Bengaluru
  • Rapid Metro Gurgaon, in Gurugram
  • Jaipur Metro, in Jaipur Pink City
  • Ahmedabad Metro, in Amdavad
Iran
  • Tehran Metro, in Tehran/Karaj
  • Mashhad Metro, in Mashhad
  • Shiraz Metro, in Shiraz
  • Tabriz Metro, in Tabriz
  • Esfahan Metro, in the Esfahan Region
Mainland China

Europe

United Kingdom
  • West Midlands Metro, light rail tram system between Birmingham and Wolverhampton, England
  • Tyne and Wear Metro, light rail system, North East England

North America (outside the United States)

United States
  • Metro (Minnesota)
  • Muni Metro, light rail system, San Francisco, California
  • Metro Transit (Minnesota), existing and proposed light rail and bus rapid transit lines
  • Valley Metro Rail, mainly in Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa, Arizona
  • Washington Metro, heavy rail rapid transit system in Washington, D.C. and its Maryland and Virginia suburbs

Oceania

  • Metro Trains Melbourne, 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
  • Tranz Metro, commuter rail operator, Wellington, New Zealand

South America

Bus services and other transit authorities

  • Metrobus (disambiguation), several bus operators

Europe

  • Metro (Belfast), bus services, Northern Ireland
  • West Yorkshire Metro or MetroTrain, England

North America

Oceania

  • Metro (Christchurch), co-ordinated public transport, Christchurch, New Zealand
  • Metro Tasmania, a state-owned bus company

Airports

  • Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Michigan, United States
  • Metro International Airlines, a charter and scheduled passenger subsidiary of the defunct Flying Tiger Line

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) or MetroTV, 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)
  • Metro (2013 film), Russian film
  • Metro (2016 film), a Tamil language film
  • The Metro (film), a 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

Venues

  • Metro Chicago, a music venue, Chicago, United States
  • The Metro Theatre, a music venue, Sydney, Australia
  • Metro Nightclub, the former name of the Palace theatre, Melbourne, Australia

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)
  • AM New York Metro
  • 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
  • Metro 2033 (2005)
  • Metro 2034 (2009)
  • Metro 2035 (2015)
Video games
  • Metro 2033 (2010)
  • Metro: Last Light (2013)
  • Metro Exodus (2019)
Board games
  • Metro, a 2000 board game

Business

  • Metro (department store), a chain based in Singapore
  • Metro (supermarket, Greece)
  • Metro (supermarket, Indonesia), a real estate and property management company
  • Metro AG, Germany's largest retailer
  • MetroCentre (shopping centre), indoor shopping mall, Gateshead, England, UK
  • Metro Cash and Carry, a hypermarket chain owned by Metro AG
  • METRO Foods Trading, Cyprus
  • Metro Inc., a Canadian supermarket chain
  • Metro (restaurant chain), an Icelandic fast food chain
  • Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), a non-profit organization
  • Metro by T-Mobile, a prepaid wireless service provider in the United States

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

Technology

For vehicles, see § Vehicles.
  • Metro (design language), developed by Microsoft for interfaces
  • 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

Aircraft

  • Fairchild Metro, a commuter airliner

Automobiles

  • Austin Metro, a British supermini hatchback, also called MG Metro
  • Geo Metro, an American subcompact car, later called Chevrolet Metro
  • International Metro Van, an American step van

Other uses

  • El Metro 4, a Mexican high-ranking drug trafficker
  • Gregorio Sauceda-Gamboa, Mexican drug lord nicknamed Metro 2
  • Samuel Flores Borrego (1972–2011), Mexican drug lord nicknamed Metro 3
  • Metro (Oregon regional government)
  • Metro Vancouver Regional District

See also

  • Metropolitan (disambiguation)
  • Metropolis (disambiguation)
  • Metropol (disambiguation)
  • Metrorail (disambiguation)
  • Metro line (disambiguation)
  • Metroliner (disambiguation)
  • Metro City (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Metro
  • All pages with titles containing Metro
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