Metro

Metro most often refers to:

• Metropolitan area, the populated region including and surrounding an urban center
• Rapid transit, a passenger railway in an urban area with high capacity and frequency

Metro may refer to:

Places

• Metro City (Indonesia), a city in Indonesia
• MetroWest, an area in Massachusetts
• MetroWest (Orlando), an area in Orlando, Florida
• Detroit Metropolitan Airport, in Michigan, US

Public transport

Public transport terms

• Rapid transit, a passenger railway in an urban area with high capacity and frequency
• The public transport operator of city or metropolitan area
• The transportation authority of city or metropolitan area
• The urban rail transit system of a city or metropolitan area

Rail systems

For metropolitan rail systems, see List of metro systems § List.

Bus services and transit authorities

Asia

• MetroMini, in Jakarta, Indonesia
• Lahore Metrobus, in Pakistan

Europe

• Metro (Belfast), in Northern Ireland, UK
• Metro (Liverpool City Region), in England, UK
• West Yorkshire Metro (or MetroTrain), in England, UK

North America

United States

• Greater Portland Metro Bus, in Maine
• King County Metro, in Seattle, Washington
• Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (branded as "Metro"), in California
• Metro (Cincinnati), in Ohio
• Houston Metro, in Houston, Texas
• Mountain Metropolitan Transit, in Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Metrobus (Washington, D.C.), in the Washington Metro Area

Oceania

• Brisbane Metro, in Australia
• Metro Tasmania, in Australia

In multiple places

• Metro Transit (disambiguation)
• Metrobus (disambiguation)

Businesses and organizations

For broadcasters and media companies, see § Media and entertainment.

For schools, see § Schools.

For public transport operators, see § Public transport.

• Metro Bank (United Kingdom), a high street bank in the UK
• Metro (department store), a chain based in Indonesia
• Metro (supermarket, Greece)
• Metro (supermarket, Indonesia), a real estate and property management company
• Metro AG, a retailer in Germany
• 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 International Airways, a former American charter and passenger airline, now part of Flying Tiger Lines
• 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 US
• Metro Retail Stores Group, a retail company based in Mandaue, Philippines
• Detroit Metropolitan Airport, in Michigan, US

Media and entertainment

Books

• Metro (novel), 1933, by Vladimir Varankin
• Metro 2033 (novel) (2005)
• Metro 2034 (2009)
• Metro 2035 (2015)

Broadcasting

• Metro Broadcast Corporation, with a variety of Hong Kong–based Metro‑branded radio stations
• Metro Channel, a pay TV channel in the Philippines
• Metro FM, a national radio station, South Africa
• Metro Radio, former name for a radio station, Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, now called Hits Radio North East
• Metro TV (disambiguation), 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
• Metrovision, a defunct Malaysian television channel
• Radio Metrowave, a defunct Bangladeshi radio station
• Telemetro, a Panamanian television channel
• DD Metro, a defunct Indian television channel
• NRK Metro, a defunct Norwegian radio station

Film

• Metro (1997 film), starring Eddie Murphy
• Metro (2007 film), an Indian Hindi-language by Anurag Basu
  • Metro (2024 film), its sequel by Basu
• Metro (2013 film), Russian film
• Metro (2016 film), an Indian Tamil-language film
• The Metro (film), an Indian 2011 Malayalam-language film
• Metro Pictures, one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's predecessor companies

Media companies

For broadcasters, see § Broadcasting.

• Metro International, a Swedish media company
• Metro Newspapers, a newspaper company in California

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; since 2015
• 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
• "The Metro" (song), a 1983 single by Berlin
• "Metro", a 2006 song by The Vincent Black Shadow
• "Metro", a song by Tokyo Jihen from the 2007 album Variety

Venues

• Metro Chicago, a music venue, Chicago, US
• Metro Theatre, Sydney, 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)
• Metro New York (2004–2020), merged with AM New York, renamed AM New York Metro
• AM New York Metro (2003, as AM New York), merged with Metro New York
• 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, in San Jose, California
• StarMetro (newspaper), a chain of Canadian free newspapers (formerly called Metro until April 2018)
• Zimbabwe Metro

Video games

• Metro 2033 (video game) (2010)
• Metro: Last Light (2013)
• Metro Exodus (2019)

Other uses in media and entertainment

• Metro (board game), 2000
• Metro (franchise), a multimedia sci-fi franchise created by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky, including:
• Metro (typeface)

Schools

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

Sports

• Metro (wrestler), a Mexican masked luchador
• Metro Conference (1975–1995), a defunct NCAA Division I athletic conference
• Metro FC (New Zealand), association football club based in Auckland
• Little League World Series (Metro Region), a Little League World Series US region

Technology

For vehicles, see § Vehicles.

• Metro (design language), developed by Microsoft for interfaces
• Eclipse Metro, an open source web service stack that is part of Eclipse Enterprise for Java (EE4J)
• Metro Ethernet, an Ethernet-based computer network that covers a metropolitan area
• Metro, former code name of the Open XML Paper Specification, Microsoft's document framework

Vehicles

Automobiles

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

Other vehicles

• Fairchild Metro, a commuter airliner
• Stadler METRO, rapid transit rolling stock manufactured by Stadler Rail since 2012

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
• Metro Police (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Metro
• All pages with titles containing Metro