Metro

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Metro may refer to:

Public transport

• Rapid transit, a passenger railway in an urban area with high capacity and frequency
• London's Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway and a precursor of the London Underground
• The Paris Métro in Paris, France
• The Moscow Metro opened in 1935, the first of several rapid transit systems built in the Soviet Union
• Valley Metro Rail, mainly in Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa, Arizona, United States
• Manchester Metrolink, a light urban tram system, England
• Metro Trains Melbourne, in Australia
• Muni Metro, light rail system, San Francisco, California
• Metro Transit (Minnesota), existing and proposed light rail and bus rapid transit lines
• Tranz Metro, commuter rail operator, Wellington, New Zealand
• Tyne and Wear Metro, light rail system, North East England
• Mexico City Metro, in Mexico
• Montreal Metro, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Kolkata Metro, in Kolkata, India

Bus services and other transit authorities

• West Yorkshire Metro or MetroTrain, England
• King County Metro, Seattle, Washington, United States
• Madison Metro, Wisconsin, United States
• Metro (Belfast), bus services, Northern Ireland
• Metro (Christchurch), co-ordinated public transport, Christchurch, New Zealand
• Metro (Houston) or the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, rail and bus systems, Greater Houston, Texas, United States
• Greater Portland Metro Bus, Maine, United States
• Metro (St. Louis), also known as the Bi-State Development Agency, Missouri, United States
• Metro Tasmania, a state-owned bus company
• Metro Transit:, such as
  • Metro Transit (Halifax), Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Metro Transit (Kalamazoo), Michigan, United States
  • Metro Transit (Minnesota), Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area, United States
  • Metro Transit (Oklahoma City), Oklahoma, United States
• Metrobus (disambiguation), several bus operators
• Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority Metro, Erie and Niagara counties, New York, United States
• Washington Metro, rapid transit metro and bus systems, Washington, D.C. and suburbs (Maryland and Virginia), United States
• Metro, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, rail and bus systems, United States
• Delhi Metro [Rapid transit metro systems,Delhi & NCR regions],INDIA

Airports

• Detroit Metro Airport, Michigan, United States

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

Entertainment

Film

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

Music

Artists

• Metro (Hungarian band)
• Metro (British band), active 1976–1980
• Metro (Serbian band), active 1981-1985; 1994-1997
• Metrô (Brazilian new wave band), active 1978-1988; 2002-2004; 2014; 2015-present
• The Metros , an English indie band; Active 2006-2009

Albums

• Metro (album), 1977 self-titled album by the British band

Musicals

• Metro (musical), a 1991 Polish musical

Songs

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

Labels and venues

• Metro Recordings, a record label
• 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

Other

• Metro: Last Light, a video game, sequel to Metro 2033
• Metro (novel), by Vladimir Varankin

Media

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

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, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Newspapers

• Harian Metro, Malaysia
• Metro (Belgian newspaper)
• Metro (British newspaper)
• Métro (Canadian newspaper)
• Metro (Dutch newspaper)
• Metro (Italian newspaper)
• Metro International, a Swedish media company that runs dozens of city and country editions in Europe, Asia and the Americas
• Metro Newspapers, a newspaper company, California, United States, which publishes:
  • Metro Santa Cruz, the former name of a weekly newspaper published in Santa Cruz, California, renamed the Santa Cruz Weekly
  • Metro Silicon Valley, a weekly newspaper published in San Jose, California
• Zimbabwe Metro

Retail businesses

• Metro (department store), a department store chain based in Singapore
• Metro (supermarket, Greece), a Greek supermarket chain
• Metro (supermarket, Indonesia), previously an Indonesian supermarket operator
• Metro AG, Germany's largest retailer, also operating stores in other European countries, Asia and Africa
• MetroCentre (shopping centre), largest indoor shopping mall in the European Union, Gateshead, England, UK
• Metro Cash and Carry, a cash-and-carry hypermarket chain owned by Metro AG
• METRO Foods Trading, retailer, Cyprus
• Metro Inc., a Canadian supermarket chain

Sports

• Metro (wrestler), a Mexican masked luchador
• Metro Conference, a defunct NCAA Division I athletic conference
• Metro F.C.

Technology

• Metro (design language), developed by Microsoft for user interfaces for computers and mobile devices
• 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

• Metro, Lampung, a city in Indonesia
• Metro (Oregon regional government), the regional government for the Portland metropolitan area, Oregon, United States
• Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), a non-profit organization

See also

• El Metro 4, a Mexican high-ranking drug trafficker
• Gregorio Sauceda-Gamboa, a Mexican drug lord nicknamed Metro 2
• Samuel Flores Borrego, a 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