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1、This article is about the political definition of metropolis. For other uses, seeMetropolis (disambiguation).Not to be confused withMetropolitan area.New York Cityhas garnered thenicknameMetropolisto describe the city in the daytime inpopular culture, contrasting withGotham, sometimes used to descri
2、be New York City at night.1Ametropolis(/mtrpls,-pls/)2is a largecityorconurbationwhich is a significanteconomic,political, andcultural centerfor acountryorregion, and an important hub for regional or international connections, commerce, and communications. The term isAncient Greek() and means the mo
3、ther city of acolony(in the ancient sense), that is, the city which sent out settlers. This was later generalized to a city regarded as a center of a specified activity, or any large, important city in a nation.A big city belonging to a larger urban agglomeration, but which is not the core of that a
4、gglomeration, is not generally considered a metropolis but a part of it. The plural of the word ismetropolises,3although the Latin plural ismetropoles, from the Greekmetropoleis(o).For urban centers outside metropolitan areas that generate a similar attraction at smaller scale for their region, the
5、concept of theregiopolis(regio for short) was introduced by German academics in 2019.4HistoryeditTheColosseumat night inRome,ItalyIn the ancient world, ametropoliswas the city or state of origin of acolony.Etymology and modern usageeditMetropolis () is aGreekword, coming from ,mtrmeaning mother and
6、,plismeaning city or town, which is how theGreek coloniesof antiquity referred to their originalcities, with whom they retained cultic and political-cultural connections. The word was used in post-classical Latin for the chief city of a province, the seat of the government and, in particular, eccles
7、iastically for the seat or see of ametropolitan bishopto whomsuffragan bishopswere responsible. This usage equates the province with thedioceseorepiscopal see.5Global cityeditThe concept of aglobal city(or world city) is of a city that has a direct and tangible effect on global affairs through socio
8、economic means. The term has become increasingly familiar, because of the rise ofglobalization(i.e.,global finance,communications, andtravel). An attempt to define and categorize world cities by financial criteria was made by theGlobalization and World Cities Research Network(GaWC), based primarily
9、atLoughborough Universityin England. The study ranked cities based on their provision of advanced producer services such asaccountancy,advertising,financeandlaw. The inventory identifies three levels of world cities and several sub-ranks (seeGaWC study).A metropolis is not necessarily a global cityo
10、r, being one, it might not be among the top-rankingdue to its standards of living, development, and infrastructure. A metropolis that is also a global city is a global metropolis.AfricaeditCairo SkylineEgypteditCairoandAlexandriaare considered Egypts biggest metropolis.NigeriaeditLagosis the most po
11、pulous metropolis in Nigeria as well as in Africa.South AfricaeditIn South Africa, ametropolitan municipalityor Category A municipality is a municipality which executes all the functions of local government for a conurbation. This is by contrast to areas which are primarily rural, where the local go
12、vernment is divided intodistrict municipalities(comparable to a county in the US) andlocal municipalities. There are eight metropolitan municipalities in South Africa.Casablanca city MetropolisMoroccoeditInMoroccothere are five metropolitan areas:Casablanca,Rabat,Tangier,FesandMarrakechare considere
13、d Moroccos biggest metropolis. Of these, Casablanca is the largest.AmericaseditArgentinaeditSee also:List of Cities in ArgentinaAerial view of Buenos AiresIn Argentina,Buenos Airesis the principal metropolis with a population of around fifteen and a half million.6The Greater Buenos Airesconurbation,
14、 which also includes several Buenos Aires Province districts, constitutes the third-largest conurbation in Latin America.7Buenos Aires is the main political, financial, industrial, commercial, and cultural hub of Argentina.BrazileditSo Paulois Brazils largest cityIn Brazil,So Paulois the principal m
15、etropolis with over 20 million inhabitants. In the larger cities, such as So Paulo andRio de Janeiro(population 6.3 million),favelas(slums) grew up over decades as people migrated from rural areas in order to find work. The term used inBrazilian Portuguesefor a metropolitan area isRegio Metropolitana. Others metropoles in Brazil with more than one million inhabitants include:Belm,Belo Horizonte,Braslia,Campinas,Curitiba,Feira de Santana,Fortaleza,Goinia,Manaus,Porto Alegre,Recife, andSalvador.Cana
