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metropolis

large and significant city or urban area usually with millions of inhabitants
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Summary

metropolis ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,021 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Named after: father[2], city[3]
  • Subclass of: big city[4]
  • Commons category: Metropolises[5]
  • Said to be the same as: million city[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Metropolises[7]
  • Different from: metropolitan area[8]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Cities[9]

Why It Matters

metropolis has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] metropolis is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Related Entities

Abu Dhabi Beijing city Helsinki Hong Kong Krasnodar London Los Angeles Madrid city Melbourne Mexico City Milan Mumbai New York City Santa Cruz de la Sierra Seoul Sydney Tonalá

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16w ago · Huntster · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → Q98966309
    Subclass of → big city
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Image: NYC wideangle south from Top of the Rock.jpg"
  2. 16w ago · Huntster · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facet of → Q3076155
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Facet of: ekistics, Copying from Ecumenopolis"
  3. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Cities
    Topic's main category → Category:Metropolises
    Said to be the same as → million city
    Svkkl authority id → 0320329-metropole
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0320329-metropole, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
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