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A metropolis (in Greek μήτηρ, mētēr meaning mother and πόλις, pólis meaning city/town) is a big city, Big cities belonging to a larger urban agglomeration, but which are not the core of that agglomeration, are not generally considered a metropolis but a part of it. A metropolis is usually a significant economical, political and cultural center for some country or region, and an important hub for regional or international connections and communications. The plural of the word is most commonly metropolises, though metropoleis is sometimes used as well.
In a broader sense, it refers to the city or state of origin of a colony (as of ancient Greece), a city regarded as a center of a specified activity, or a large important city.

Antiquity
The word comes from the Greek metropolis ("mother city"), which is how the Greek colonies of antiquity referred to their original cities, with whom they retained cultic and political-cultural connections. The word was used in post-classical Latin for the chief city of a province, the seat of the government, and in particular ecclesiastically for the seat or see of a metropolitan bishop to whom suffragan bishops were responsible. This usage equates the province with the diocese or episcopal see.
In modern usage the word is also used for a metropolitan area, a set of adjacent and interconnected cities clustered around a major urban center. In this sense "metropolitan" usually means "spanning the whole metropolis" (as in "metropolitan administration"); or "proper of a metropolis" (as in "metropolitan life", and opposed to "provincial" or "rural").

Etymology and modern usage
The concept of a Global city (or a World city) means a city that has a direct and tangible effect on global affairs through socioeconomic, cultural, and/or political means. The term has become increasingly familiar, because of the rise of globalization (i.e., global finance, communications, and travel). An attempt to define and categorize world cities by financial criteria was made by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group & Network (GaWC), based primarily at Loughborough University in England. The study ranked cities based on their provision of "advanced producer services" such as accountancy, advertising, finance and law. The Inventory identifies three levels of world cities and several sub-ranks (See World cities ranking).
A metropolis isn't necessarily a global city, or being one, it could not be among the top ranking due to its standards of living, development, and infrastructures. London could be considered the first Global City and modern metropolis in the world.

Global/world city

Local definitions by country
Statistics Canada defines a census metropolitan area as one or more adjacent municipalities situated around a major urban core where the urban core has a population of at least 100,000.[3]

Canada
In India, the Census Commission defines a metropolitan city as one having a population of over 4 million.[4] Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad are the six cities that qualify. Residents of these cities are also entitled to a higher House rent allowance. The figure only applies to the city region and not the conurbation. Now recently Bangalore and Hyderabad are considered Metropolitan cities, due to tremendous development in these cities.

India
Various conurbations in the United Kingdom are considered to be metropolitan areas (see Metropolitan county). The term 'Metropolis' itself is rarely used. London is archaically referred to as 'the Metropolis', although in more recent times the term has also been used to describe Bolton by some of its citizens, albeit in a tongue-in-cheek fashion.

United Kingdom
In the United States an incorporated area or group of areas having a population more than 50,000 is required to have a metropolitan planning organization in order to facilitate major infrastructure projects and to ensure financial solubility. Thus, a population of 50,000 or greater has been used as a de facto standard in the United States to define a metropolis. A similar definition is used by the United States Census Bureau. They define a metropolitan statistical area as at least one urbanized area of 50,000 or more inhabitants.

United States

Main article: Metropole Metropole
Alexandria
Amsterdam
Antwerp
Metropolis Athens
Auckland
Bangkok
Beijing
Bangalore
Beirut
Berlin
Bogotá
Buenos Aires
Cairo
Calgary
Cali
Caracas
Charleroi
Chicago
Chennai
Delhi
Denver
Dubai
Eindhoven
Frankfurt am Main
Ghent
Hong Kong
Islamabad
Istanbul
Jakarta
Johannesburg
Karachi
Kuwait City
Lahore
Las Vegas
Liège
London
Los Angeles
Madrid
Manila
Melbourne
Mexico City
Miami
Montreal
Mumbai
New York City
Osaka
Paris
Peshawar
Rio de Janeiro
Rotterdam
San Diego
San Diego-Tijuana
Santiago
São Paulo
Seattle
Seoul
Shanghai
Singapore
Sydney
The Hague
Tokyo
Toronto
Warsaw
Washington

Gallery
According to the main definition at the top of this article, worldwide examples of modern-day metropolises by continent include the cities in the following non-exhaustive list:

Contemporary metropolises

Flag of Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan
Flag of Ghana Accra
Flag of Ethiopia Addis Ababa
Flag of Egypt Alexandria
Flag of Algeria Algiers
Flag of Madagascar Antananarivo
Flag of the Republic of the Congo Brazzaville
Flag of Egypt Cairo
Flag of South Africa Cape Town
Flag of Morocco Casablanca
Flag of Guinea Conakry
Flag of Senegal Dakar
Flag of Tanzania Dar es Salaam
Flag of Cameroon Douala
Flag of South Africa Durban
Flag of Sierra Leone Freetown
Flag of Morocco Fes
Flag of Zimbabwe Harare
Flag of Nigeria Ibadan
Flag of South Africa Johannesburg
Flag of Uganda Kampala
Flag of Nigeria Kano
Flag of Sudan Khartoum
Flag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Kinshasa
Flag of Nigeria Lagos
Flag of Angola Luanda
Flag of Zambia Lusaka
Flag of Mozambique Maputo
Flag of Morocco Marrakech
Flag of Somalia Mogadishu
Flag of Kenya Nairobi
Flag of South Africa Pretoria
Flag of Morocco Rabat
Flag of Morocco Tangier
Flag of Libya Tripoli
Flag of Tunisia Tunis Africa

Asia

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

Flag of India Ahmedabad
Flag of India Bangalore
Flag of India Bhopal
Flag of India Chandigarh
Flag of India Chennai
Flag of Bangladesh Chittagong
Flag of India Cochin
Flag of Bangladesh Dhaka
Flag of India Delhi
Flag of India Hyderabad
Flag of Pakistan Islamabad
Flag of India Jaipur
Flag of India Kanpur
Flag of Pakistan Karachi
Flag of Nepal Kathmandu
Flag of India Kolkata
Flag of Pakistan Lahore
Flag of India Lucknow
Flag of India Mumbai
Flag of India Nagpur
Flag of India Pune
Flag of India Patna
Flag of Pakistan Peshawar Southern Asia

Flag of Indonesia Bandung
Flag of Thailand Bangkok
Flag of the Philippines Cebu City
Flag of Thailand Chiang Mai
Flag of the Philippines Davao City
Flag of Vietnam Haiphong
Flag of Vietnam Hanoi
Flag of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City
Flag of Malaysia Ipoh
Flag of Indonesia Jakarta
Flag of Malaysia Johor Bahru
Flag of Malaysia Kuala Lumpur
Flag of Indonesia Makassar
Flag of Myanmar Mandalay
Flag of the Philippines Manila
Flag of Indonesia Medan
Flag of Indonesia Palembang
Flag of Malaysia Penang
Flag of Cambodia Phnom Penh
Flag of Singapore Singapore
Flag of Indonesia Surabaya
Flag of Indonesia Semarang
Flag of Myanmar Yangon Southeastern Asia

Flag of Turkey Adana
Flag of the United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi
Flag of Syria Aleppo
Flag of Kazakhstan Almaty
Flag of Jordan Amman
Flag of Turkey Ankara
Flag of Iraq Baghdad
Flag of Azerbaijan Baku
Flag of Iraq Basra
Flag of Lebanon Beirut
Flag of Turkey Bursa
Flag of Syria Damascus
Flag of the United Arab Emirates Dubai
Flag of Turkey Gaziantep
Flag of Turkey İzmir
Flag of Saudi Arabia Jeddah
Flag of IsraelPalestinian flag Jerusalem
Flag of Kuwait Kuwait City
Flag of Iran Mashhad
Flag of Saudi Arabia Mecca
Flag of Saudi Arabia Riyadh
Flag of Yemen San'a'
Flag of Iran Shiraz
Flag of Iran Tabriz
Flag of Uzbekistan Tashkent
Flag of Georgia (country) Tbilisi
Flag of Iran Tehran
Flag of Israel Tel Aviv
Flag of Armenia Yerevan Western/Central Asia

Europe

Flag of Romania Bucharest
Flag of Hungary Budapest
Flag of Serbia Belgrade
Flag of Slovakia Bratislava
Flag of Moldova Chişinău
Flag of Ukraine Dnipropetrovsk
Flag of Ukraine Donetsk
Flag of Russia Irkutsk
Flag of Poland Katowice
Flag of Russia Kazan
Flag of Ukraine Kharkiv
Flag of Ukraine Kiev
Flag of Poland Kraków
Flag of Russia Krasnodar
Flag of Poland Łódź
Flag of Ukraine Lviv
Flag of Belarus Minsk
Flag of Russia Moscow
Flag of Russia Nizhny Novgorod
Flag of Russia Novosibirsk
Flag of Ukraine Odessa
Flag of Russia Perm
Flag of Poland Poznań
Flag of the Czech Republic Prague
Flag of Russia Rostov-on-Don
Flag of Russia Sankt Petersburg
Flag of Russia Samara
Flag of Bulgaria Sofia
Flag of Russia Ufa
Flag of Russia Vladivostok
Flag of Russia Volgograd
Flag of Russia Voronezh
Flag of Poland Warsaw
Flag of Poland Wrocław
Flag of Ukraine Zaporizhia
Flag of Russia Yekaterinburg Eastern Europe

Flag of the United Kingdom Belfast
Flag of the United Kingdom Birmingham
Flag of the United Kingdom Bristol
Flag of Denmark Copenhagen
Flag of Ireland Dublin
Flag of the United Kingdom Edinburgh
Flag of the United Kingdom Glasgow
Flag of Sweden Gothenburg
Flag of Finland Helsinki
Flag of the United Kingdom Leeds
Flag of the United Kingdom Liverpool
Flag of the United Kingdom London
Flag of the United Kingdom Manchester
Flag of the United Kingdom Newcastle
Flag of the United Kingdom Nottingham
Flag of Norway Oslo
Flag of Latvia Riga
Flag of the United Kingdom Sheffield
Flag of Sweden Stockholm
Flag of Estonia Tallinn
Flag of Lithuania Vilnius Northern Europe

Flag of Greece Athens
Flag of Spain Barcelona
Flag of Italy Bari
Flag of Serbia Belgrade
Flag of Spain Bilbao
Flag of Italy Bologna
Flag of Italy Florence
Flag of Italy Genoa
Flag of Turkey Istanbul
Flag of Portugal Lisbon
Flag of Spain Madrid
Flag of Spain Málaga
Flag of Italy Milan
Flag of Italy Naples
Flag of Italy Palermo
Flag of Portugal Porto
Flag of Italy Flag of the Vatican City Rome
Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo
Flag of Spain Seville
Flag of Greece Thessaloniki
Flag of Italy Turin
Flag of Spain Valencia
Flag of Croatia Zagreb
Flag of Spain Zaragoza Southern Europe

Flag of the Netherlands Amsterdam
Flag of Belgium Antwerp
Flag of Germany Berlin
Flag of Switzerland Bern
Flag of Switzerland Basel
Flag of France Bordeaux
Flag of Germany Bremen
Flag of Belgium Bruges
Flag of Belgium Brussels
Flag of Belgium Charleroi
Flag of Germany Cologne
Flag of Germany Dortmund
Flag of Germany Dresden
Flag of Germany Duisburg
Flag of Germany Düsseldorf
Flag of the Netherlands Eindhoven
Flag of Germany Essen
Flag of Germany Frankfurt
Flag of Switzerland Geneva
Flag of Belgium Ghent
Flag of France Grenoble
Flag of the Netherlands The Hague
Flag of Germany Hamburg
Flag of Germany Hannover
Flag of Switzerland Lausanne
Flag of Germany Leipzig
Flag of Belgium Liège
Flag of France Lille
Flag of France Lyon
Flag of France Marseille
Flag of Germany Munich
Flag of France Nantes
Flag of Belgium Namur
Flag of France Paris
Flag of the Netherlands Rotterdam
Flag of France Rouen
Flag of France Strasbourg
Flag of Germany Stuttgart
Flag of France Toulouse
Flag of the Netherlands Utrecht
Flag of Austria Vienna
Flag of Switzerland Zürich Western Europe

Northern America

Flag of Mexico Acapulco
Flag of Mexico Cancún
Flag of Mexico Chihuahua
Flag of Mexico Ciudad Juárez
Flag of Mexico Culiacan
Flag of Mexico Guadalajara
Flag of Guatemala Guatemala City
Flag of Cuba Havana
Flag of Jamaica Kingston
Flag of Mexico León
Flag of Mexico Los Cabos
Flag of Nicaragua Managua
Flag of Mexico Mexico City
Flag of Mexico Monterrey
Flag of Mexico Morelia
Flag of Panama Panama City
Flag of Mexico Puebla
Flag of Puerto Rico Flag of the United States San Juan
Flag of Haiti Port-au-Prince
Flag of Costa Rica San Jose
Flag of Cuba Santiago de Cuba
Flag of the Dominican Republic Santiago de los Caballeros
Flag of Mexico Santiago de Querétaro
Flag of the Dominican Republic Santo Domingo
Flag of Mexico San Luis Potosí
Flag of El Salvador San Salvador
Flag of Mexico Tampico
Flag of Honduras Tegucigalpa
Flag of Mexico Tijuana
Flag of Mexico Toluca
Flag of Mexico Torreón
Flag of Mexico Tuxtla Gutiérrez Middle America

Flag of Paraguay Asunción
Flag of Colombia Barranquilla
Flag of Brazil Belém
Flag of Brazil Belo Horizonte
Flag of Colombia Bogotá
Flag of Brazil Brasília
Flag of Argentina Buenos Aires
Flag of Colombia Bucaramanga
Flag of Colombia Cali
Flag of Brazil Campinas
Flag of Venezuela Caracas
Flag of Colombia Cartagena
Flag of Argentina Córdoba
Flag of Brazil Curitiba
Flag of Brazil Fortaleza
Flag of Brazil Goiânia
Flag of Ecuador Guayaquil
Flag of Bolivia La Paz
Flag of Peru Lima
Flag of Brazil Maceió
Flag of Brazil Manaus
Flag of Venezuela Maracaibo
Flag of Colombia Medellín
Flag of Argentina Mendoza
Flag of Uruguay Montevideo
Flag of Brazil Niterói
Flag of Colombia Pereira
Flag of Brazil Porto Alegre
Flag of Ecuador Quito
Flag of Brazil Recife
Flag of Brazil Rio de Janeiro
Flag of Argentina Rosario
Flag of Brazil Salvador
Flag of Chile Santiago
Flag of Brazil São Luís
Flag of Brazil São Paulo
Flag of Venezuela Valencia
Flag of Brazil Vitória Oceania

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