metropolitan area
administrative unit of a dense urban core and its satellite cities
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metropolitan area
Summary
metropolitan area ranks in the top 0.19% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,796 views/month, #148 of 77,819).[1]
Key Facts
- metropolitan area is a type of statistical territorial entity[2].
- metropolitan area is a type of political territorial entity[3].
- metropolitan area is a type of urban area[4].
- metropolitan area is a type of human-geographic territorial entity[5].
- metropolitan area's Commons category is recorded as Metropolitan areas[6].
- metropolitan area's said to be the same as is recorded as functional urban area[7].
- metropolitan area comprises core city[8].
- metropolitan area comprises suburb[9].
- metropolitan area comprises commuter town[10].
- metropolitan area comprises exurb[11].
- metropolitan area comprises satellite city[12].
- metropolitan area's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Metropolitan areas[13].
- metropolitan area's described at URL is recorded as https://www.whosonfirst.org/docs/placetypes/#metroarea[14].
- metropolitan area's described at URL is recorded as https://population.un.org/wup/glossary-demographic-terms[15].
- metropolitan area's different from is recorded as city[16].
- metropolitan area's different from is recorded as metropolis[17].
- metropolitan area's different from is recorded as megalopolis[18].
- metropolitan area's different from is recorded as urban agglomeration[19].
- metropolitan area's different from is recorded as Q126112633[20].
- metropolitan area's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Cities[21].
Body
Definition and Type
Recorded subclass of include statistical territorial entity[2], political territorial entity[3], urban area[4], and human-geographic territorial entity[5].
Use and Application
Components include core city[8]; suburb[9], an urban unit definition[22]; commuter town[10]; exurb[11]; and satellite city[12].
Why It Matters
metropolitan area ranks in the top 0.19% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,796 views/month, #148 of 77,819).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 55 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]