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 is very old and began in Greece.^[1]

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.

Old usesEdit

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

Modern MetropolisesEdit

AfricaEdit

AmericasEdit

North AmericaEdit

Middle AmericaEdit

South AmericaEdit

AsiaEdit

Eastern AsiaEdit

Southern AsiaEdit

Southeastern AsiaEdit

Western/Central AsiaEdit

EuropeEdit

Central EuropeEdit

Eastern EuropeEdit

Northern EuropeEdit

Southern EuropeEdit

Western EuropeEdit

OceaniaEdit

Related pagesEdit

Megacity

Notes and referencesEdit

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 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
↑ 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 websitesEdit

U.S. Census Bureau: About Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistics
Megalopolis, my Arcadia, 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," 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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