metropolitan area

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metropolitan area

noun metropolitan areas

  1. An area of population usually with a central or core city and surrounding towns or suburbs. Before the year was out there were, in addition to Redwood's pioneer vehicle, quite a number of motor-perambulators to be seen in the west of London. I am told there were as many as eleven; but the most careful inquiries yield trustworthy evidence of only six within the Metropolitan area at that tim

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noun area of population

Españolárea metropolitana
한국어도시권 dosigwon, 대도시권 daedosigwon
Portuguêsárea metropolitana

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@misc{metropolitan_area_2026,
  title = {metropolitan area},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/metropolitan%20area},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}