Just after independence in the Congo, a Metropolitan Command (Cometro) was active to control the Belgian forces there.

It is the principal city of the Midland, Texas Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Midland County.

The Academy quickly established the Metropolitan Board of Health, the first modern municipal public health authority in the United States.

The Port of South Louisiana (Metropolitan New Orleans in Laplace) and the Port of Houston are two of the ten busiest ports in the world by cargo volume.

And we asked ourselves, why couldn't it be exhibitionistic, like the Met, or like some of the other buildings at Lincoln Center?

The county was named for Captain Eleazer D. Wood, the engineer for General William Henry Harrison's army, who built Fort Meigs in the War of 1812.

Winter Dreams is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald that first appeared in Metropolitan Magazine in December 1922, and was collected in All the Sad Young Men in 1926.

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture won the contract from the Beijing International Tendering Co. to construct the CCTV Headquarters and the Television Cultural Center by its side on 1 January 2002, after winning an international design competition.