Metropolis

This article is about the political definition of "metropolis". For other uses, see Metropolis (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Metropolitan area.

Megacity

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.

Singapore is an entirely sovereign urban metropolis. It has been described by The Economist as the "world's only fully functioning city-state".

Tokyo is the world's most populous metropolis. Its skyline often consists of Mount Fuji in the background.

A metropolis (/mɪˈtrɒpəlɪs/) is a large city or conurbation which is a significant economic, political, and cultural center for a country or region, and an important hub for regional or international connections, commerce, and communications.

A big city belonging to a larger urban agglomeration, but which is not the core of that agglomeration, is not generally considered a metropolis but a part of it. The plural of the word is metropolises, although the Latin plural is metropoles, from the Greek metropoleis (μητρoπόλεις).

For urban centers outside metropolitan areas that generate a similar attraction on a smaller scale for their region, the concept of the regiopolis ("regio" for short) was introduced by urban and regional planning researchers in Germany in 2006.