Metropolitan municipality
A metropolitan municipality is a type of municipality established in some countries to serve a metropolitan area.
Canada
In generic terms, and in practical application within Canada, a metropolitan municipality is an urban local government; or at least a suburban government flanked by urban and/or other suburban counties. Conversely, a rural area (or a suburban area flanked mostly by rural areas) in which county and municipal functions are consolidated in one government is not a metropolitan municipality but a regional municipality.
The most typical distinction, in historical terms, is that a metropolitan municipality is usually a consolidation of one urban city and the county in which it is located. A regional municipality, by contrast, is usually a consolidation of two or more suburban and/or rural cities, towns or villages - each of which remains a geographically distinct area, usually because of greenspace between them - and the county in which they are located.
European Union
- Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona
- City State of Berlin
- Brussels-Capital Region
- Metropolitan Association of Upper Silesia
- Greater Manchester
- Greater London Authority
- Metropolitan Stockholm
- South Yorkshire
- Tricity
- Grande Área Metropolitana
- Metropolitan municipalities of Italy
Europe/Asia
Iran
- Tehran
- Mashhad
- Isfahan
- Karaj
- Tabriz
- Shiraz
- Ahvaz
- Qom
- Kermanshah
- Urmia
- Rasht
- Zahedan
- Kerman
- Arak
- Hamadan
Turkey
- Istanbul
- Izmir
- Ankara
- Bursa
- Adana
- Mersin
- Antalya
- Kocaeli
- Aydın
- Balıkesir
- Denizli
- Diyarbakır
- Erzurum
- Eskişehir
- Gaziantep
- Hatay
- Kahramanmaraş
- Kayseri
- Konya
- Malatya
- Manisa
- Mardin
- Mersin
- Muğla
- Ordu
- Sakarya
- Samsun
- Şanlıurfa
- Tekirdağ
- Trabzon
- Uşak
South Africa
See also
- Amalgamation (politics)
- Metropolitan county
- Metropolitan borough
- Sub-provincial city in the People's Republic of China