Metropolis

A metropolis is a word that means a very big city,^[1] that usually has over 500,000 people living in it.^[2] A metropolis often has many smaller towns and cities inside its area.

The word began in ancient Greece,^[1] originally meaning the city or state of origin of a colony. Later it came to mean the seat of a Bishop who also supervised the Church in other cities, or a city regarded as a center of some specified activity, or a large and important city. In India a "metropolis" is a city with more than a million people.

Old Uses

In the past many large cities were called metropolitan due to their size or importance; such as: Alexandria, Angkor, Antioch, Athens, Babylon, Baghdad, Beirut, Benares, Byblos, Carthage, Constantinople, Corinth, Damascus, Ephesus, Great Zimbabwe, Harappa, Jerusalem, Kangla, Nanjing, Nineveh, Macchu Picchu, Mohenjo-Daro, Rome, Sarai, Side, Syracuse, Tenochtitlan, Teotihuacan, Tikal, Tyre, Xian and Ur.

Modern Metropolises

The modern metropolises are increasing day by day in this world since pre-21st century.

Africa

North America

Middle America

South America

Eastern Asia

Southern Asia

Southeastern Asia

Western and Central Asia

Europe

Central Europe

Eastern Europe

Northern Europe

Southern Europe

Western Europe

Oceania

Metropolis Media

Skyline of Taipei, which is one of the world's major global cities
New York has garnered the nickname Metropolis to describe the city in the daytime in popular culture, contrasting with Gotham, sometimes used to describe New York at night.
Skyline of Tokyo, the world's most populous metropolis, with Mount Fuji in the background
Skyline of London, which was once the metropole of the British Empire
كورنيش النيل في القاهرة.
Dhaka is Bangladesh's largest city
Shanghai is the largest city in China
Mumbai, the financial centre of India
Jakarta, the largest and busiest city in Indonesia
Tehran is Iran's largest city

Related pages

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 United Nations, "Population density and urbanization"; compare Werner Staub and Dirk Krischenowki. "GeoTLDs – Diversity, Multilingualism and Local Content," Archived 2012-02-26 at the Wayback Machine Internet Governance Forum, Oct 30 – Nov 2, 2006, p. 31 n4; excerpt, "The United Nations has set up its own classifications scheme: a "big city" is a locality with 500,000 or more inhabitants; a "city" is a locality with 100,000 or more inhabitants; an "urban locality" is a locality with 20,000 or more inhabitants; a "rural locality" is a locality with less than 20,000 inhabitants ..."; retrieved 2013-4-24
↑ Metropolis Association A full member is either a capital city or a city with more than one million inhabitants, City Mayors: Metropolis World Congress. Retrieved 15 July 2006.

Allen J. Scott (ed.) Global City Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy, Oxford University Press (2001).
Monti, Daniel J., Jr., The American City: A Social and Cultural History. Oxford, England and Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers, 1999. 391 pp. ISBN 978-1-55786-918-0.

Other websites

U.S. Census Bureau: About Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistics
Megalopolis, my Arcadia Archived 2012-12-10 at Archive.today, a podcast with a worldwide analysis of megacities (focus Latin America)

[Cities_and_Urbanisation-1] 1.0 ^1.1 United Nations, "Population density and urbanization"; compare Werner Staub and Dirk Krischenowki. "GeoTLDs – Diversity, Multilingualism and Local Content," Archived 2012-02-26 at the Wayback Machine Internet Governance Forum, Oct 30 – Nov 2, 2006, p. 31 n4; excerpt, "The United Nations has set up its own classifications scheme: a "big city" is a locality with 500,000 or more inhabitants; a "city" is a locality with 100,000 or more inhabitants; an "urban locality" is a locality with 20,000 or more inhabitants; a "rural locality" is a locality with less than 20,000 inhabitants ..."; retrieved 2013-4-24

[2] Metropolis Association A full member is either a capital city or a city with more than one million inhabitants, City Mayors: Metropolis World Congress. Retrieved 15 July 2006.

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