metropolitan city
Large urban center
A metropolitan city is a large urban center that serves as a regional hub for commerce, culture, and government.
The term often implies not just population size but economic and political significance—a city that anchors a broader metropolitan area of surrounding suburbs and satellite communities.
Tokyo, London, and New York are quintessential metropolitan cities.
- metropoleImperial colonial hub
- megalopolisVast merged urban region
- megacityUrban area exceeding ten million
- trafficMovement along routes
- concrete jungleDense cityscape, few parks
municipality · town · urban area · rush hour · rush hour traffic · diversity · multiculturalism · melting pot · skyscraper · high rise · public transit · skyline · downtown area · commerce · mass transit · population density · urban sprawl · crowd
metropolitan cityrural area
Low-density agricultural region
countryside · rural village · rural town · village · farmland
metropolitan citysmall town
Modest rural settlement
village · hamlet · township · settlement · borough
metropolitan cityrural community
Settlement outside cities
country living · small-town life · provincial town · remote village · tight-knit community
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