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A metropolis is a large city, and/or a major cultural or economic center.

Metropolis may also refer to:

In geography

As cities

• Metropolis, Cosenza, in Italy
• Metropolis, Illinois, in the United States
• Metropolis, Nevada, in the United States
• Metropolis (Anatolia), a classical city in Turkey
• Metropolis, the chief city of an ecclesiastical province
• Metropolis, a name for London during the Victorian era

As places

• Metropolis (London Recording Studio), a music recording studio in London, UK
• Metropolis Building, in Madrid, Spain
• Metropolis (Auckland building), a hotel skyscraper in Auckland, New Zealand
• Metropolis (mall), a shopping mall in Indiana

• Toronto Life Square, formerly 'Metropolis', a development in Toronto, Canada
• Metrotown, also known as 'Metropolis at Metrotown', the second-largest shopping center in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

As fictional places

• Metropolis (comics), the fictional city where comic book hero Superman lives
• Metropolis Zone, a three-act level in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (16-bit) for the Sega Genesis
• Metropolis, a sky-high city on planet Kerwan in the Ratchet and Clank universe

In film, radio and television

• Metropolis (film), a 1927 silent science-fiction film by Fritz Lang
• Metropolis (musical), a 1989 musical based on the 1927 film of the same name
• Metropolis (anime), an anime film based on the manga by Osamu Tezuka
• Metropolis (TV station), a music television station in Serbia
• Metropolis (KTXT), a comic book radio show in Lubbock, Texas

In music

Songs and other musical works

• Metropolis - Rescore by The New Pollutants
• "Metropolis", a song by synth band Kraftwerk from their 1978 album The Man-Machine
• "Metropolis", song by the band Motörhead
• "Metropolis", song by the band Amon Düül II
• "Metropolis", song by the band The Vision Bleak
• Metropolis: A Blue Fantasy, a 1928 orchestral work by Ferde Grofé
• "Metropolis Pt. 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper", a song by the progressive metal band Dream Theater

Albums and other collections

• Metropolis (Client album), a compilation album by Client
• Metropolis (Jeff Mills album), an album by Jeff Mills
• Metropolis (Sister Machine Gun album), an album by industrial band Sister Machine Gun
• Metropolis (Swords album), an album by the American indie rock group Swords
• "Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory", a 1999 album by the group Dream Theater
• Metropolis 2000: Scenes from New York, a 2001 DVD of live performances by the group Dream Theater
• Metropolis Suite I of IV: The Chase, a 2007 EP by American R&B singer Janelle Monae

Other

• Metropolis Records, a record label that specializes in industrial, EBM, and electro music
• Metropolis (quartet), an internationally-ranked barbershop quartet
• Metropolis, a television news music package by Stephen Arnold, commissioned by WFLA-TV
• Metropolis, a public radio music program hosted by Jason Bentley

In books and magazines

• Metropolis (novel), a novel by Upton Sinclair
• Metropolis magazine, an English language magazine in Japan
• Metropolis (American magazine), an American architecture and design magazine
• Metropolis Daily, a free newspaper published in Hong Kong
• Superman's Metropolis, a comic book trilogy from DC Comics
• Captain Metropolis, a character in Watchmen, a comic book written by Alan Moore and published by DC Comics
• Metropolis (manga), by Osamu Tezuka

In mathematics

• Nicholas Metropolis (1915 – 1999), a mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project
• Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, a statistical procedure named after mathematicians Nicholas Metropolis and W.K. Hastings
• Metropolis light transport, an application of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm for creating images from descriptions of 3-dimensional scenes

In transportation

• Alstom Metropolis, an urban railway rolling stock
• Metropolis (airline), a Dutch airline company

In organizations

• Metropolis Project, the world's largest international research project studying human migration

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