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 Uses
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
The modern metropolises are increasing day by day in this world since pre-21st century.
AfricaEdit
North AmericaEdit
Middle AmericaEdit
South AmericaEdit
Eastern AsiaEdit
Southern AsiaEdit
Southeastern AsiaEdit
Western and Central AsiaEdit
EuropeEdit
Central EuropeEdit
Eastern EuropeEdit
Northern EuropeEdit
Southern EuropeEdit
Western EuropeEdit
OceaniaEdit
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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)