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Metro, short for metropolitan, may refer to:

Geography

Public transport

Rail systems

Africa

Asia

India
Iran
China (People's Republic of)

Europe

  • Amsterdam Metro, Netherlands
  • Athens Metro, in Athens, Greece
  • Bucharest Metro, Romania
  • Copenhagen Metro, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Helsinki Metro, the rapid transit system serving Helsinki, Finland
  • Istanbul Metro, Turkey
  • Kyiv Metro, Ukraine
  • Moscow Metro opened in 1935, the first of several rapid transit systems built in the Soviet Union
  • Oslo Metro, Oslo, Norway
  • Paris Métro in Paris, France
  • Prague Metro in Prague, Czech Republic
  • Rotterdam Metro, Netherlands
  • Saint Petersburg Metro opened in 1955, Russia
  • Sofia Metro, Bulgaria
  • Thessaloniki Metro, in Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Warsaw Metro, in Poland
United Kingdom
  • West Midlands Metro, light rail tram system between Birmingham and Wolverhampton, England
  • Tyne and Wear Metro, light rail system, North East England

North America (outside the United States)

  • Mexico City Metro, in Mexico
  • Montreal Metro, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
United States
  • Metro (Minnesota)
  • METRORail, a light rail system in Houston
  • Muni Metro, light rail system, San Francisco, California
  • Valley Metro Rail, mainly in Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa, Arizona
  • Washington Metro, heavy rail rapid transit system in Washington, D.C. and its Maryland and Virginia suburbs

Oceania

  • Metro Trains Melbourne, in Australia
  • Metro Tunnel, a metropolitan rail infrastructure project currently under construction in Melbourne, Australia
  • Metro Transport Sydney, the former operator of Sydney Light Rail and Sydney Monorail
  • Sydney Metro, in Sydney, Australia
  • Tranz Metro, commuter rail operator, Wellington, New Zealand

South America

  • Metro de Santiago, the second largest in South America, serving Santiago, Chile
  • Caracas Metro, is a mass rapid transit system serving Caracas, Venezuela
  • São Paulo Metro, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
  • Rio de Janeiro Metro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Bus and/or rail services, and other transit authorities

  • Metrobus (disambiguation), several bus operators

Europe

  • Metro (Belfast), bus services, Northern Ireland
  • West Yorkshire Metro or MetroTrain, England

North America

  • Metro Transit (disambiguation), several North American bus services
  • Metro (Cincinnati)
  • Greater Portland Metro Bus, Maine
  • King County Metro, Seattle, Washington
  • Madison Metro, Wisconsin
  • the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, public transit system branded as "Metro"
  • Mountain Metropolitan Transit, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Oceania

  • Metro (Christchurch), co-ordinated public transport, Christchurch, New Zealand
  • Metro Tasmania, a state-owned bus company

Airports

  • Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Michigan, United States
  • Metro International Airlines, a charter and scheduled passenger subsidiary of the defunct Flying Tiger Line

Education

  • Metro Academic and Classical High School, St Louis, Missouri, United States
  • Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States
  • Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Media and entertainment

Broadcasting

  • Metro Broadcast Corporation, with a variety of Hong Kong‑based Metro‑branded radio stations
  • Metro FM, a national radio station, South Africa
  • Metro Radio, a radio station, Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England
  • Metro TV (disambiguation) or MetroTV, several television stations
  • Metro 14, on air name of CJNT-DT, a television station, Montreal, Quebec
  • Radio Metro, a radio station, Argentina
  • Metro (Poland), a Polish television channel

Film

  • Metro (1997 film), starring Eddie Murphy
  • Metro (2007 film)
  • Metro (2013 film), Russian film
  • Metro (2016 film), a Tamil language film
  • The Metro (film), a 2011 Malayalam-language film
  • Metro Pictures, one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's predecessor companies

Music

Artists

  • Metro (Hungarian band)
  • Metro (British band), active 1976–1980
  • Metro (Serbian band), active 1981–1985; 1994–1997
  • Metrô (band), Brazilian new wave band active 1978–1988; 2002–2004; 2014; 2015–present
  • Metro Boomin (born 1993), American songwriter, known simply as Metro
  • The Metros, an English indie band active 2006–2009

Titled works

  • Metro (album), 1977 self-titled album by the British band
  • Metro (musical), a 1991 Polish musical
  • "Metro" (The Vincent Black Shadow song), a 2006 song by The Vincent Black Shadow
  • "The Metro" (song), a 1983 single by Berlin

Venues

  • Metro Chicago, a music venue, Chicago, United States
  • The Metro Theatre, a music venue, Sydney, Australia
  • Metro Nightclub, the former name of the Palace theatre, Melbourne, Australia

Periodicals

Magazines

  • Metro (magazine), New Zealand lifestyle magazine
  • Metro Magazine, for bus and rail transit and motorcoach operators
  • Metro Weekly, a free weekly magazine-style publication for the LGBT community of Washington, D.C.

Newspapers

  • Harian Metro, Malaysia
  • Metro (Belgian newspaper)
  • Metro (British newspaper)
  • Metro (Dutch newspaper)
  • Metro (Italian newspaper)
  • Metro (Swedish newspaper)
  • Métro (Montreal newspaper), a French-language free newspaper
  • Metro (Philadelphia newspaper)
  • AM New York Metro
  • Metro Daily, Hong Kong newspaper
  • Metro Santa Cruz, former name of a newspaper in Santa Cruz, California, renamed the Santa Cruz Weekly
  • Metro Silicon Valley, a newspaper in San Jose, California
  • StarMetro (newspaper), a chain of Canadian free newspapers (formerly called Metro until April 2018)
  • Zimbabwe Metro
Media Companies
  • Metro International, a Swedish media company
  • Metro Newspapers, a newspaper company in California

Others

  • Metro (franchise), a multimedia sci-fi franchise created by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky, including:
Books
  • Metro 2033 (2005)
  • Metro 2034 (2009)
  • Metro 2035 (2015)
Video games
  • Metro 2033 (2010)
  • Metro: Last Light (2013)
  • Metro Exodus (2019)
  • Metro (novel), 1933 novel by Vladimir Varankin
  • Metro (typeface)
Board games
  • Metro, a 2000 board game

Business

  • Metro (department store), a chain based in Singapore
  • Metro (supermarket, Greece)
  • Metro (supermarket, Indonesia), a real estate and property management company
  • Metro AG, Germany's largest retailer
  • MetroCentre (shopping centre), indoor shopping mall, Gateshead, England, UK
  • Metro Cash and Carry, a hypermarket chain owned by Metro AG
  • METRO Foods Trading, Cyprus
  • Metro Inc., a Canadian supermarket chain
  • Metro (restaurant chain), an Icelandic fast food chain
  • Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), a non-profit organization
  • Metro by T-Mobile, a prepaid wireless service provider in the United States

Sports

  • Metro (wrestler), a Mexican masked luchador
  • Metro Conference, a defunct NCAA Division I athletic conference
  • Metro FC (New Zealand), association football club based in Auckland

Technology

  • Metro (design language), developed by Microsoft for interfaces
  • GlassFish Metro, an open source web service stack that is part of the GlassFish project
  • Metro Ethernet, an Ethernet-based computer network that covers a metropolitan area
  • Metro, former code name of the XML Paper Specification, Microsoft's document framework

Vehicles

Aircraft

  • Fairchild Metro, a commuter airliner

Automobiles

  • Austin Metro, a British supermini hatchback, also called MG Metro
  • Geo Metro, an American subcompact car, later called Chevrolet Metro
  • International Metro Van, an American step van

Other uses

  • El Metro 4, a Mexican high-ranking drug trafficker
  • Gregorio Sauceda-Gamboa, Mexican drug lord nicknamed Metro 2
  • Samuel Flores Borrego (1972–2011), Mexican drug lord nicknamed Metro 3
  • Metro (Oregon regional government)
  • Metro Vancouver Regional District

See also

  • Metropolitan (disambiguation)
  • Metropolis (disambiguation)
  • Metropol (disambiguation)
  • Metrorail (disambiguation)
  • Metro line (disambiguation)
  • Metroliner (disambiguation)
  • Metro City (disambiguation)
  • Dmytro, a Ukrainian name of which "Metro" is a nickname
  • All pages with titles beginning with Metro
  • All pages with titles containing Metro