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Metro, short for metropolitan, may refer to:
Public transport
- Rapid transit, a passenger railway in an urban area with high capacity and frequency
Rail systems
Africa
- Cairo Metro in Cairo, Egypt
- Algiers Metro in Algiers, Algeria
Asia
- Shanghai Metro in Shanghai, China
- Taipei Metro, railway system in Taipei, Taiwan
- Bangkok Metro, railway system in Bangkok, Thailand
- Dubai Metro, in Dubai
- Chennai Metro, in Chennai
- Delhi Metro, Delhi & NCR regions
- Kolkata Metro, in Kolkata
- Mumbai Metro, in Mumbai
- Hyderabad Metro, in Hyderabad
- Kochi Metro, in Kochi
Europe
- Amsterdam Metro, Netherlands
- Athens Metro, in Athens, Greece
- Berlin U-Bahn, Germany
- Copenhagen Metro, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Helsinki Metro, the rapid transit system serving Helsinki, Finland
- Istanbul Metro, Turkey
- 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
- Thessaloniki Metro, in Thessaloniki, Greece
- Warsaw Metro, in Poland
United Kingdom
- London's Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway and a precursor of the London Underground
- Manchester Metrolink, a light urban tram system, England
- West Midlands Metro, light rail tram system between Birmingham and Wolverhampton, England
- South Wales Metro, proposed integration of rail and bus services, Wales
- Tyne and Wear Metro, light rail system, North East England
North America
- Mexico City Metro, in Mexico
- Montreal Metro, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
United States
- Metro (Los Angeles)
- Washington Metro, heavy rail rapid transit system in Washington, D.C. and its Maryland and Virginia suburbs
- Metro (Minnesota)
- Muni Metro, light rail system, San Francisco, California
- Metro-North Railroad, New York and suburban rail system
- Metro Transit (Minnesota), existing and proposed light rail and bus rapid transit lines
- Valley Metro Rail, mainly in Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa, Arizona
Oceania
- Metro Trains Melbourne, in Australia
- Melbourne Metro Rail Project, a metropolitan rail infrastructure project currently under construction in Melbourne, Australia
- Metro Transport Sydney, the former operator of Sydney Light Rail and Sydney Monorail
- 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
Bus 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 (Houston)
- Metro (St. Louis)
- Greater Portland Metro Bus, Maine
- King County Metro, Seattle, Washington
- Madison Metro, Wisconsin
- Metro Transit (disambiguation):, such as
- Metro Transit (Halifax), Nova Scotia, Canada
- Metro Transit (Kalamazoo), Michigan
- Metro Transit (Minnesota), Minneapolis-Saint Paul
- Metro Transit (Oklahoma City)
- Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority Metro, Erie, and Niagara counties, New York
- Metro, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, rail and bus systems
- 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
- Metro State College, Denver, Colorado, United States
- Metro 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
- MetroTV, an Indonesian news channel
- 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)
- Metro (U.S. newspaper), largest circulation among free newspapers in the United States
- Métro (Montreal newspaper), a French-language free newspaper
- Metro Daily, Hong Kong newspaper
- Metro International, a Swedish media company
- Metro Newspapers, a newspaper company in California which publishes:
- 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 Canadian free newspapers (formerly called Metro until April 2018)
- Zimbabwe Metro
Retail businesses
- Metro (department store), a chain based in Singapore
- Metro (supermarket, Greece)
- Metro (supermarket, Indonesia)
- 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
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
- Austin Metro and MG Metro, produced by Austin Rover in Europe
- Fairchild Metro, a commuter airliner
- Geo Metro, a variant of the Suzuki Cultus sold in North America
- International Harvester Metro Van
Other uses
- Metro (novel), by Vladimir Varankin
- Metro (restaurant chain), an Icelandic fast food chain
- Metro (typeface)
- Metro (Oregon regional government)
- Metro, Lampung, a city in Indonesia
- Metro: Last Light, a video game, sequel to Metro 2033
- Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), a non-profit organization
- Metro by T-Mobile, a prepaid wireless service provider in the United States
See also
- 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 2033, a novel by Dmitry Glukhovsky
- Metro 2033 (video game), a 2010 video game based on the novel
- Metropolitan (disambiguation)
- Metrorail (disambiguation)
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