A metropolis (/mtrpls/)[1] is a large city or urban area which is a significant economic, political, and cultural center for

acountry or region, and an important hub for regional or international connections, commerce, and communications. The term is
Greek and means the "mother city" of a colony (in the ancient sense), that is, the city which sent out settlers. This was later
generalized to a city regarded as a center of a specified activity, or any large, important city in a nation.
A big city belonging to a larger urban agglomeration, but which is not the core of that agglomeration, is not generally considered a
metropolis but a part of it. The plural of the word is most commonly metropolises.[2]
For urban centers outside metropolitan areas that generate a similar attraction at smaller scale for their region, the concept of
the regiopolis, short regio, was introduced by German professors in 2006.[3]