Metropolis

A metropolis is a very big city,United Nations,  "Population density and urbanization"; compare Werner Staub and Dirk Krischenowki.  "GeoTLDs – Diversity, Multilingualism and Local Content,"  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  that usually has over 500,000 people living in it.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.  A metropolis often has many smaller towns and cities in its metropolitan area. 

The word began in ancient Greece, from the words for "mother" and "city".  It meant the city-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.

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.

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

Africa
 Abidjan
 Accra
 Addis Ababa
 Alexandria
 Algiers
 Antananarivo
 Brazzaville
 Cairo
 Cape Town
 Casablanca
 Conakry
 Dakar Dar es Salaam
 Douala
 Durban
 Freetown
 Fes
 Harare
 Ibadan
 Johannesburg
 Kampala
 Kano
 Khartoum
 Kinshasa Lagos
 Luanda
 Lusaka
 Maputo
 Marrakech
 Mogadishu
 Nairobi
 Pretoria
 Rabat
 Tangier
 Tripoli
 Tunis

North America
 Atlanta
 Austin
 Baltimore
 Boston
 Buffalo
 Calgary
 Charlotte
 Chicago
 Cincinnati
 Cleveland
 Columbus
 Dallas
 Denver
 Detroit
 Edmonton
 Houston
 Indianapolis Jacksonville
 Kansas City
 Las Vegas
 Los Angeles
 Louisville
 Memphis
 Miami
 Milwaukee
 Minneapolis
 Montreal
 Nashville
 New Orleans
 New York City
 Oklahoma City
 Orlando
 Ottawa
 Philadelphia Phoenix
 Pittsburgh
 Portland
 Sacramento
 Saint Louis
 Salt Lake City
 San Antonio
 San Diego
 San Francisco
 San Jose
 Seattle
 Tampa
 Toronto
 Vancouver
 Virginia Beach
 Washington, D.C.

Middle America
 Acapulco
 Cancún
 Chihuahua
 Ciudad Juárez
 Culiacan
 Guadalajara
 Guatemala City
 Havana
 Kingston
 León
 Los Cabos
 Managua
 Mexico City
 Monterrey
 Morelia
 Panama City Puebla
  San Juan
 Port-au-Prince
 San Jose
 Santiago de Cuba
 Santiago de los Caballeros
 Santiago de Querétaro
 Santo Domingo
 San Luis Potosí
 San Salvador
 Tampico
 Tegucigalpa
 San Pedro Sula
 Tijuana
 Toluca
 Torreón
 Tuxtla Gutiérrez

South America
 Asunción
 Barranquilla
 Belém
 Belo Horizonte
 Bogotá
 Brasília
 Buenos Aires
 Bucaramanga
 Cali
 Campinas
 Caracas
 Cartagena
 Córdoba Curitiba
 Fortaleza
 Goiânia
 Guayaquil
 La Paz
 Lima
 Maceió
 Manaus
 Maracaibo
 Medellín
 Mendoza
 Montevideo
 Niterói Pereira
 Porto Alegre
 Quito
 Recife
 Rio de Janeiro
 Rosario
 Salvador
 Santiago
 São Luís
 São Paulo
 Valencia
 Vitória

Eastern Asia
 Anshan
 Baotou
 Beijing
 Benxi
 Busan
 Changchun
 Changsha
 Chengdu
 Chiba
 Chongqing
 Daegu
 Daejeon
 Dalian
 Datong
 Fukuoka
 Fushun
 Fuzhou
 Guangzhou
 Guiyang
 Gwangju
 Haikou
 Hamamatsu
 Handan
 Hangzhou
 Harbin
 Hefei
 Hiroshima
 Hohhot  Hong Kong
 Huainan
 Incheon
 Jilin City
 Jinan
 Kaohsiung
 Kawasaki
 Kitakyūshū
 Kobe
 Kunming
 Kyoto
 Lanzhou
 Luoyang
  Macau
 Nagoya
 Nanchang
 Nanjing
 Nanning
 Niigata
 Ningbo
 Osaka
 Pyongyang
 Qingdao
 Qiqihar
 Saitama
 Sakai
 Sapporo
 Sendai Seoul
 Shanghai
 Shantou
 Shenyang
 Shenzhen
 Shijiazhuang
 Shizuoka
 Suzhou
 Taichung
 Tainan
 Taipei
 Taiyuan
 Tangshan
 Tianjin
 Tokyo
 Ulsan
 Ürümqi
 Wuhan
 Wuxi
 Xiamen
 Xi'an
 Xining
 Xuzhou
 Yinchuan
 Yokohama
 Zhengzhou
 Zhuhai
 Zibo

Southern Asia
 Ahmedabad
 Amravati
 Bangalore
 Bhopal
 Bhubaneswar
 Chandigarh
 Chennai
 Coimbatore
 Chittagong
 Dhaka
 Comilla
 Delhi Hyderabad
 Indore
 Islamabad
 Jabalpur
 Jaipur
 Jodhpur
 Kabul
 Kanpur
 Karachi
 Kathmandu
 Kolkata Lahore
 Ludhiana
 Lucknow
 Madurai
 Mumbai
 Nagpur
 Nashik
 Patna
 Prayagraj
 Pune
 Raipur
 Ranchi
 Surat
 Vadodara
 Vijayawada
 Visakhapatnam

Southeastern Asia
 Bandung
 Bangkok
 Cebu City
 Chiang Mai
 Davao City
 Haiphong
 Hanoi Ho Chi Minh City
 Ipoh
 Jakarta
 Kuala Lumpur
 Makassar
 Mandalay
 Manila Medan
 Palembang
 Phnom Penh
 Singapore
 Surabaya
 Semarang
 Yangon

Western and Central Asia
 Adana
 Abu Dhabi
 Aleppo
 Almaty
 Amman
 Ankara
 Baghdad
 Baku
 Barnaul
 Basra
 Beirut
 Bursa Chelyabinsk
 Damascus
 Doha
 Dubai
 Gaziantep
 Irkutsk
 İzmir
 Jeddah
 Jerusalem
 Krasnoyarsk
 Mashhad
 Mecca
 Muscat
 Novosibirsk Omsk
 Riyadh
 San‘a’
 Tabriz
 Tashkent
 Tbilisi
 Tehran
 Tel Aviv
 Yekaterinburg
 Yerevan

Europe
Central Europe
 Basel
 Berlin
 Bremen
 Budapest
 Cologne
 Dortmund
 Dresden
 Duisburg
 Düsseldorf Essen
 Frankfurt
 Geneva
 Hamburg
 Hannover
 Katowice
 Kraków
 Leipzig
 Łódź Munich
 Poznań
 Prague
 Stuttgart
 Vienna
 Warsaw
 Wrocław
 Zürich

Eastern Europe
 Chişinău
 Dnipro
 Donetsk
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 Kharkiv
 Kyiv
 Krasnodar Lviv
 Minsk
 Moscow
 Nizhny Novgorod
 Odesa
 Perm
 Rostov-on-Don Samara
 Sankt Petersburg
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 Volgograd
 Voronezh
 Zaporizhia

Northern Europe
 Birmingham
 Copenhagen
 Dublin
 Glasgow
 Gothenburg
 Helsinki Leeds
 Liverpool
 London
 Manchester
 Newcastle
 Oslo Riga
 Sheffield
 Stockholm
 Tallinn
 Vilnius

Southern Europe
 Athens
 Barcelona
 Belgrade
 Bilbao
 Bologna
 Bucharest
 Florence
 Genoa Istanbul
 Lisbon
 Madrid
 Málaga
 Milan
 Naples
 Palermo
 Porto  Rome
 Seville
 Sofia
 Thessaloniki
 Turin
 Valencia
 Zagreb
 Zaragoza

Western Europe
 Amsterdam
 Antwerp
 Bordeaux
 Brussels
 Charleroi
 Eindhoven Ghent
 The Hague
 Liège
 Lille
 Lyon
 Marseille Nantes
 Paris
 Rotterdam
 Toulouse
 Utrecht

Oceania
 Auckland
 Adelaide
 Brisbane Gold Coast
 Melbourne
 Newcastle Perth
 Sydney
 Wellington

Related pages
Megacity
Metropolitan area

References

 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. .

Other websites
 U.S. Census Bureau: About Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistics
 Megalopolis, my Arcadia , a podcast with a worldwide analysis of megacities (focus Latin America)

Category:Urban geography