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metropolitan  

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  • Metropolitan generally refers to a city and the surrounding urbanized area. The term originates in ancient Greece, where a city that had established colonies in other lands was known as a metropolis (meter “mother” + polis “city”; literally the mother city, a city that had offspring). [Source: Encyclopedia of Urban Studies; Metropolitan]

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