Metropolitan vs. Regional

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a major city

Of or relating to a large geographic region.

Of or constituting a large city or urbanized area, including adjacent suburbs and towns

Of or relating to a particular region or district.

Of, relating to, or constituting the home territory of an imperial or colonial state.

Of or affecting a region of the body

Of or relating to an ecclesiastical metropolitan.

Of or characteristic of a form of a language that is distributed in identifiable geographic areas and differs in pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary from the standard form.

A citizen of a metropolis, especially one who displays urbane characteristics, attitudes, and values.

Something, such as a magazine or a company branch, that serves a region

In the Western Christian churches, a bishop with provincial powers, with some authority over suffragan bishops.

Of, or pertaining to, a specific region or district.

In most Eastern Orthodox churches, a bishop who is head of an ecclesiastical province and ranks next below the patriarch.

Of, or pertaining to, a large geographic region.

In the Greek Orthodox church, a bishop ranking next below an archbishop.

Of, or pertaining to, one part of the body.

(Orthodox Christianity) A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.

(Australia) Of a state or other geographic area, those parts which are not metropolitan, but are somewhat densely populated and usually contain a number of significant towns.

The inhabitant of a metropolis.

An entity or event with scope limited to a single region.

(Orthodox Christianity) Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.

Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional.

Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.

characteristic of a region;

Of or pertaining to the parent state of a colony or territory, or the home country, e.g. metropolitan France

related or limited to a particular region;

Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority.

The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.

An archbishop.

A bishop whose see is a civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch; as, the metropolitan of Constantinople.

in the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity

a person who lives in a metropolis

relating to or characteristic of a metropolis;